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What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Not that it’s a conspiracy, just something this thread should know: what you call pedophiles aren’t pedophiles, they are child molesters. Actual pedophiles are little more likely to molest children than anyone else is. Exactly like how people who are attracted to women don’t automatically rape women. Sexual abuse is never about sexual attraction.

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    6 days ago

    The franklin scandal that probably was part of the same ring as Epstein

    https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds

    Also Epstein isn’t dead. He’s probably in Israel. The online account activity, the guard testimony, that one 4chan guard post, the weird autopsy, the nonsense noose, the photos of him, now even the notes in his cell which are for some reason partially redacted. The harder you look the less dead he looks

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      I think his FedEx account being active is one of the biggest red flags, besides of course the photo of him supposedly dead with his face flush with blood.

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        Yeah morticians are not on board with those photos. Which means the US Marshalls wins. The only government agency competent enough to fake someone’s death successfully. Congratulations Marshalls, you’re better than the CIA and Mossad.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      And remember that the media only puts out exactly what they want us to see, so they’re making all these details intentionally confusing to keep our little brains preoccupied, intended to keep us distracted from all the other atrocities they’re committing.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    A conspiracy theory is a specific sociological phenomenon, though, not just a theory about a conspiracy.

    Like, I could say maybe Hitler had something to do with the Reichstag fire, but that was never subject of a conspiracy theory movement.

    • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      I thought I read somewhere that True Detective was heading in the direction of exploring that idea at some point. Sooooo fucking much material for that these days.

      • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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        Listen to this podcast and let me know if you think reach Season 1 of True Detective wasn’t based on these crimes.

        From the pedophile ring coming into town for Mardi Gras down to the mentally ill brother and sister who were products of inbreeding, and living in an abandoned plantation home with a cistern where victims were kept.

        Warning it it covers extremely disturbing content and can be very difficult to listen to.

        https://www.neworleansunsolved.com/

  • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Plastic recycling is a PR campaign to relieve our guilt about single-use plastics and keep consuming. In reality: 95% of plastic is trashed. The oil and gas industry knew widespread plastic recycling was never feasible back in the 70’s but keep up the narrative.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      It depends on the plastic. Plastic is only possible to be efficiently recycled if it is not contaminated with other grades of plastic. In the real world this is incredibly difficult to achieve. A bulk of recycled plastic are just warehouse and logisitic networks baling polypropylene film.

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      There’s a learning there. Corporations haven’t done that only once, it’s their mode of operation. The food pyramid? Sugar vs Fat? Personal carbon footprint?

      It’s all mostly lies (international differences may apply) created by small groups to make money (big surprise there).

      The biggest mistake we made is personifying companies and removing people from accountability.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      It’s all trash, the recycled plastic is good for less than nothing, as it frees masses of chemical additives that aren’t well regulated or even known in the process, and they can’t use it for basically anything.

      They had documents from their internal communications at the oil companies leak I think about manufacturing this whole recycling thing to shift the blame onto us, and we all bought into it, I remember them pushing this hard in elementary school. Reduce, Reuse, recycle, which ok, that’s all fine and well, but we are living in a society run by people forcing us into wasteful lifestyles.

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    8 days ago

    John deer purposefully puts out vehicles with faulty or low life parts so that they break down and need to be repaired, letting them essentially sell each vehicle twice.

    Right to repair laws need to be a thing asap.

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      7 days ago

      Its not just John Deere, lots of companies do this. Its called planned obsolescence.

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        Engineer: we can use this $0.05 nut and it should last a decade, or we can use this $0.049 nut and it’ll maybe last 2 years.

        Boss: Use the 0.49 nut and were giving you a promotion!

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        The amount of rage I have when I take something broken apart just to find that only one of the gears was made of plastic and is some shape or size that’s impossible to find on the open market.

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      8 days ago

      The moon landing was done by Hollywood. However, they got Stanley Kubrick to do it, and being the perfectionist he was, he insisted upon shooting on location.

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    7 days ago

    The world is being held hostage by a cabal of insanely rich pedophiles who are only concerned with accumulating more wealth and remaining unaccountable for their crimes.

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      i really wonder what makes people SO obsessed with their own pedophilia and urge to rape that they’d rather kill most of humanity than grow up as a person

      jungian shadow: deep, deathly scared shame in the subconscious is my guess

      • guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 days ago

        Accountability.

        I doubt any of the people involved have faced more than a fine for wrongdoing.

        Wealthy people only see prison for fucking over the wealthy.

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          yep women are held accountable for their part (and rightly so). pam, ghislaine. but they’re clearly used as sole scapegoats so the rapists dont face consequences.

          rule of the powerful narcissist: there must be a scapegoat to put all the blame on

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    1. International trafficking and pedophile rings existed long before Epstein ever became involved in the 80s, and it’s very naive to believe it just suddenly ended when he was “suicided” in his jail cell. Many of the most infamous busts that occured before his involvement can actually be connected via archived news articles from the 1970s and 80s: Eye of the Chickenhawk (2023)

    2. Conspiracies about the “dangers” of a “one world government”/U.N. new world order/Greta Thunberg is the “antichrist” have always mainly been fueled by propaganda campaigns of wealthy conservatives around the globe who want to destroy the existence of international law in order to avoid prosecution for their crimes.

    (Also, there (/s)hockingly seems to be quite a lot of overlap with these wealthy conservatives who oppose regulations at home and abroad, and members of the international pedophile ring who view other human beings as disposable objects.)

    • Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com
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      Yep Epstein has become the sacrificial lamb for all of them. He maybe is dead cos they needed to make sure people didn’t find out about the other child sex abuse rings… distraction works.

      He likely wasn’t the only one at the time… and right now there’ll be more