the CIA backs and boosts absolute nonsense conspiracy theories like flat earth, tin foil hats, and Obama being a lizard to discredit the notion of conspiracy theory entirely

the trudeau castro thing, it doesnt effect anything really but the idea is pretty funny

I think there's probably a lot more human experimentation going on than any of us would like to think.

The reason movie theaters switched from reel projection to digital projection was to undermine the projectors' union since digital projection can just be automated.

Popular media whether it's music or film or whatever is decided by studios and labels as opposed to organic popularity. (Obviously not all cases are true, but I feel there's a lot of cases where it is true.)

I strongly believe that a lot of the internet is dead and that it's just chugging along with a digital Potemkin village of activity and relevance, with no further input from living people needed or even wanted.

Much like how "oops, the did a fucky wucky today so livelihoods must end" tea leaf reading is just taken for granted as meaning something, way too many people just trust "googling it" or whatever a Wikipedia entry says and go with whatever is then put in front of them.

You know how cheap electronics (like a lot of Halloween decorations) specify not to use rechargeable batteries? I think that's just a ploy by Big Battery to sell more batteries.

That 99.9% of the time social media "virality" is just admin from YouTube and TikTok manually choosing which of their favorite influencers are forced upon users. I'm not even talking execs here, just low-ranking code monkeys and paper pushers on a power trip.

That most Meta workers abuse their power and read users' DMs. Pretty sure this has been confirmed, though not by Zuck and the gang—just random ex-employees. I knew a guy who worked for Facebook who my gut-instinct says was cyber-stalking me. He let a piece of really personal info about me slip during a convo. It wasn't a dark secret, just something that I'd barely told anyone. I assumed that maybe my friend had told him, but she said she'd hardly spoken to him.

i'm convinced kurt cobain was transfem. for more on this, read the excellent piece kurt cobain will have his revenge on the straights

There are secret drugs only rich people know about.

How microwave ovens often have a “popcorn” button, only for most microwave popcorn brands strongly warning against the use of the popcorn button. Makes me think the oven manufacturers have an irrational hatred for popcorn enjoyers and made the popcorn button activate a secret overpowered microwave mode to slowly kill the innocent popcorn enjoyers, and the popcorn brands are fighting back by quietly warning the popcorn enjoyers of the evil microwave oven manufacturer’s evil plot to kill them

Power to the popcorn 🤘

No music becomes popular organically on tiktok. I believe that every song that becomes popular thought tiktok is either tailor-made to be easy to put in to tiktoks (like having some very widespread, easy to use message or a dramatic transition), or record label pay tiktok to push videos that include their songs. My reasons for believing this is that nearly every song that becomes popular on tiktok is garbage and no one can genuinely like that shit

When Blizzard was gearing up for the original release of Overwatch, they discretely funded a ton of porn as part of their marketing for the game. There's no other explanation for why those characters were so prevalent and then dropped off so hard.

Dead Internet Theory is at least partially true. Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook all have scores of bots pumping engagement numbers with algorithmically generated content that is nearly undetectable in part because it's so prevalent that we've all learned to think that that's just how people on the internet talk. Most of the twitter weirdos people get mad at have just been bots going off on a weird word-association tangent.

• US intelligence knew (if not made possible) what was going to happen on 9/11

• Isreal intelligence knew (if not made possible) what was going to happen on 10/7

I too enjoy the lore of the traditional UFO stuff. It interests me because of it's development coinciding with birth and growth of the leviathan-like American national security state at the beginning of the Cold War. I want to try writing some sci-fi around it for my own enjoyment, specifically on the present generation of politicians fascination with it.

I want to someday share some ideas for the world building with my fellow Hexbears, since I want to explore the political economy aspect of this scifi topic in the story. I thought that would be interesting idea to look at in a community of materialist thinkers.

The metal tips on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets

Their true purpose is sinister

That the movie "They Live" was actually a documentary.

Korea Airlines 007 was actually attacked by giant crabs that plucked the plane out of the sky and ate the passengers. The Soviet Union and US teamed up to cover it up because it would undermine the aviation and fishing industries if people found out about the mountain-sized crabs.

I never thought about it that way but that actually seems plausible to me.

No, I'm not in on it, but I think the idea of some secret society running things is somewhat possible. I know this type of conspiracy theory is ultimately a reaction to global capitalism. But it's not an impossibility that these elite, capitalists have some society they join and keep secret. I think about it being similar to how at one point the monarchies that spread throughout Europe were actually all related so, despite wars and differences, they are still family. A secret society of capitalists doesn't negate the truths of capitalism, so anti-capitalist critiques are still valid, but maybe they do hang out at some spot together, talk shop, party, get wasted, and fuck each other. In a way it's harmless because the secret society itself is not the issue, their brutal capitalist form of life is the real harm, and it's very possible that they have some group to support shared interests even if it's filled with people who otherwise hate each other. It's likely not the case and I don't truly believe it but I think it's possible.

Also, there are totally massive sea monsters from legends in the ocean we haven't found yet. That's not a conspiracy theory, just straight facts.

I'm of the belief that the contemporary existence of foot fetishes was the result of some shady scheme by some group (fuck knows who).

Yeah, yeah I know that there's examples erotica involving feet dating back as far back as ancient Greece, but hear me out:

In 1998, a study was carried out analysing porn magazines released between 1964 and 1994. They found that women's feet became a much larger focus when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was in the public consciousness and drew a comparison to a spike of foot fetishism in the European continent during the syphilis epidemic of the 19th century, concluding that foot fetishism is connected to fears of catching STIs.

I disagree, by focusing specifically on porn and not the larger cultural milieu, they had missed the mainstreaming of foot fetishism in the movies and TV that predates the epidemic.

MASH, held the record for the most watched episode of TV in its final episode (so big in fact, that there was a surge in toilets flushing shortly after the episode ended that did lasting damage to New York's sewer system). Now MASH is a comedy series that frequently falls back on joking about how foot obsessed its main cast is, to the point that one episode even has a subplot of Hawkeye being assigned to inspect everyone's feet and reveling in his fetish.

This is but one example, media of the time was full of the stuff. And it wasn't just you Americans who were being indoctrinated into worshipping at the altar of feet. You can find foot fetishism emerging in culture all around The West™ at the time.

Two questions, then, remain:

Who is responsible for this media blitz?

And,

Why did they do it?

My theory is that it was a collaboration between the CIA and MI5 to try to determine just how deep their propaganda can effect people by implanting a fetish into the larger public zeitgeist.

The nasal swab COVID-19 tests that are still somewhat affordable give false negatives waaaaaay more than they say

Professional sports are not rigged in the literal sense of the word but they most certainly have strongly influenced outcomes

I'm with you OP

Check this out, CIA staged the earliest 'canonical' ufo abduction, of Brazilian farmer Antonio Villas Boas in 1957

https://hexbear.net/post/201237

more reading here (part 1 of 9 of series on Bosco Nedelcovic) https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/the-bosco-in-brazil-pt-1

Sausage stands gets to have the good sausages that big sausage won't let consumers buy in shops.

Prince Joachim, the second child of queen Margrethe is the illegitimate son of the late count Schack who left the prince his castle in his will.

The Beatles haircut was secretly promoted by the British royal family to allow prince Charles to hide his big ugly ears under his hair.

The French are deliberately putting some of their best wine in bottles of bad wine in order to create artificial scarcity and keep prices high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#

I think the "Pioneer era" of aviation history (1903-1914) was probably preceded by more flight than is widely acknowledged, perhaps because the patrons of these unrecognized early aviators had the incentive and capability to obscure any developments in aviation they had made, both for reasons related to personal economic gain (think 1800s capitalist class, protecting r&d investment in a tech not ready for market), and/or to state security (think the relations of that same class to emergent state, their proto-intelligence/security apparatuses) - basically the Reconstruction Era deep state MIC had steampunk Black Helicopters, and they were using them to do UFO-coded psyops

Consider the "Mystery airship" phenomena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

I especially love this particular encounter in illustrating the way this all prefigures the relationship between the UFO phenomena and the CIA (and adding on, to drive home the relevance here more broadly: "cults" -> trafficking/blackmail/recruitment -> black ops, strategy of tension, anti-communism)

One witness from Arkansas – allegedly a former state senator Harris – was supposedly told by an airship pilot (during the tensions leading up to the Spanish–American War) that the craft was bound for Cuba, to use its "Hotchkiss gun" to "kill Spaniards".[27]

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Consider Rufus Porter's failure to bring his "aeroport" airship to market in 1853 https://newenglandaviationhistory.com/rufus-porters-aeroport-airship-1853/

Consider posthumous "outsider artist" Charles Dellschau's "Sonora Aero Club" active 1850-1858, purportedly as part of a wider secret society called "NYMZA" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dellschau#Posthumous_recognition

the Confederate helicopter is right there
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/plans-little-known-confederate-helicopter

for further reading, this semi-satirical(?) piece about the "secret history" of "anti-gravity" tech has a lot of relevant details

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=202006037850.the_secret_of_apergy_gravitys_second_phase

and here's a fun 3 part series on the "Mystery airships" in vintage magazine Fate, with lots of details related to the above stories but which ultimately ties it all to aliens

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_278_v26n05_May_1973_/page/n83/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_279_v26n06_June_1973_/page/n95/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_280_v26n07_July_1973/page/n59/mode/2up

The one about Avril Lavigne dying and being replaced by a double just won't leave my brain.

Baseball is a Masonic ceremony

https://southerncrossreview.org/53/diamond2.htm

https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2009/03/masonbb.html?m=1

https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/article/baseball-esoteric-pastime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumambulation#Freemasonry

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11937/11937-h/11937-h.htm#ch21

Did anybody ever read the later, weirder Dune books where they reveal that the bene tleilaxu's axolotl tanks are just what remains of their female members? That's what's in that bunker on Epstein island. They honeypot young white girls and then drug them and strap them to tables where they use IVF techniques and fertility drugs to force them to continually produce rich losers like Noam Chomsky and Bill Gates' quintuplets. Then they move the children to incubators as soon as they're viable and raise them in secret bunkers so that after the apocalypse these 'superior' specimens can emerge to rule what's left of humanity.

This is the secret they killed Epstein to protect.

I'm convinced the myth of getting ”enough” protein is perpetuated by the meat industry as well as the food industry in general. You still hear the ”I must eat muh meat to get muh protein” line constantly and the shelves of your local grocery store are probably packed with different ”protein” snacks, even though it's not that hard to get enough protein from plant-based sources and you probably don't need to supplement protein unless you work out like Dwayne Johnson.

Chemtrails aren't widespread but they seem like they very well could have been used for MKUltra stuff back in that era. It's absolutely not beyond the U.S. to say, spray a bunch of LSD and pesticides over some town in Iowa just for kicks in the 50s or 60s.

New Coke was a ruse to switch Coke to corn syrup.