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Yeah, you'd have to be a total idiot to believe something as ridiculous as that.

Plus, everyone knows this is how the earth really is:

Yeah, everyone knows Pluto is a planet!

Man that chart has not aged well at all, just in the last few years. Also the artist's motivations are pretty visible.

Most of these are hyper-exaggerations of what real people believe. Or purposeful misunderstandings of the underlying point. Take 'Jet fuel can't melt steel beams' for example. Used since its inception as a meme to undermine 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Ultimately this is a tactic in itself. My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about. If someone hears that being a 9/11 truther is inextricably linked to antisemitism, and they think of themselves as a good person, they'll shy away from ever looking into it any further than that; it's a normal reaction if someonebis already stressed, busy, or otherwise precluded from more critical thought.

Edit: Yes some of these are totally insane, I am just referring to things that have roots firmly in reality.

I know Epstein, and Thiel made this chart I just can’t prove it

I feel like this chart covers most of them, but needs a different distinction. Which ones are fun to invoke in converstion to play off the crazy and obes that ate actually off the deep end.

For example, chemtrails is a vintage conspiracy thory, its been around for a while and most people can casually make fun of it. I cant make jokes about half of that top row because most normal people just know what most of those words even mean, let alone the contents of the conspiracy.

That top row 😬😵‍💫😬😬😬. Especially after the release of the JE files, doesn't seem too implausible now.

Pretty cool chart.

I feel like Roswell, UFOs, and Area 51 belong in the yellow science denial section. Yes they're commonly held beliefs, but any science person I've seen offer an opinion says there's probably life elsewhere in the galaxy but it doesn't visit Earth.

I don't think the "moon landing was faked" is here anywhere?

Yeah dude have you read through the satanic rituals those pedos have apparently done and who’s on that Epstein list? Turns out pizzagate is real it’s just not as those MAGA idiots thought, everyone is part of it, red or blue doesn’t matter. Turns out there is indeed a shadow elite apparently doing ritualistic murders and running child sex trafficking rings. Turns out this chart is bullshit.

What is the WayFair theory? I haven't heard that one

When ol’ Kenny-boy from Enron magically died right before his trial, which enabled his family to retain all of his money, that’s when I first started realizing that maybe these fake deaths for the ultra-wealthy are plausible.

You don't even need technology. You just need to get out of the city and out of a car and look at some far away mountains on a clear day.

If the Earth was flat either

A. Cats would have knocked everything off it by now, or B. Dudes would be leading tours to the edge, because capitalism.

The Social Tilemma touched on this. Weird shit would get popular and invode your Facebook feed. I've never seen anything real about it, I don't use Facebook, Instagram or tiktok, have only seen memes making fun of flat earthers.

Fucking crazy that an idea like Pizza gate took off the way it did, idiots I tell you. Being fed dogshit and eating it up like they're starving.

I thought it was Rafael Cruz’s dad is the one who was supposed to be the Zodiac killer. Or is the conspiracy that his dad was covering for him so he could go into politics and flee Texas as soon as it got chilly?

If midterms couldn't change anything, they wouldn't be trying so hard to ratfuck them.

While we are doomed under democratic leadership as it stands, that does not make our situation hopeless, we just need real leadership. But to get there we need to realize the democratic establishment is unwilling to save us. They are the enemy. We need popular reform, and an aggressive opposition that knows how to build and run a political machine.

This isn't 1990 as the democrats think, it's 1929.