Which of these conspiracy theories is most plausible?

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i only just noticed the closing date of this poll.

people are discussing 911 and wall street conspiracy theories in my office this morning, i just want to put my head on the desk and go to sleep.

Ste, Monday, 1 September 2008 09:07 (fifteen years ago) link

some guy keeps hassling me to read all this guy's books

STFU some guy

DG, Monday, 1 September 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 9 September 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought it was pretty well accepted that Oswald was a patsy and that the US knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link

how is it that fire and debris from one building could knock down another made of STEEL?

CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link

the debris was made of KRYPTONITE

omar little, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

rushlimbaumsworld (cozwn), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh my god eight people voted for the AIDS thing?

Can we get quincie in here?

Abbott, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

whole lotta retards

metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Most plausible =/= plausible

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Can we get quincie in here?
"yeah???"
http://timstvshowcase.com/quincy6.jpg

akm, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link

who's that one mobster who claimed to confess to killing jfk on his deathbed? apparently they whacked him for cracking down on their activities even though they helped him get into office through the teamsters.

rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Barcodes are intended to control people

how the fuck does this work?

rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Barracudas are intended to control people

CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link

"Jews control Hollywood," is a CONSPIRACY to you people? OMG HAHAHAH WTF

Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, 28 September 2008 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Get one copy of Variety, jebus

Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, 28 September 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Barcodes are intended to control people

Only people that get barcode tattoos!

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

I am kind of upset the entire Atlantis mythology was not mentioned but perhaps it is there in spirit. Most New Agers/Conspiracy Theorists tend to tie it into pretty much all the other ones.

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

i don't get how ppl think the aids one is plausible.

J.D., Sunday, 28 September 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

"Jews control Hollywood," is a CONSPIRACY to you people? OMG HAHAHAH WTF

― Vichitravirya_XI, Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:27 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

"and the worldwide financial system," jebus.

12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 September 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link

fuck, I'm obsessed with lizard people now, because of this thread. Did you know Kris Kristofferson is supposed to be one??

BigLurks, Monday, 29 September 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link

The only man I've known to believe AIDS is manmade was a Mennonite!

Abbott, Monday, 29 September 2008 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link

how do the Mennonites and the Mormons roll?

caek, Monday, 29 September 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link

i bet someone here knows.. i am looking for the Wikipedia article about a man who hi-jacked a plane, got the money and then took off and jumped. he disappeared forever.

Ludo, Monday, 29 September 2008 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

en i see kay, Monday, 29 September 2008 07:32 (fifteen years ago) link

thanks! :)

Ludo, Monday, 29 September 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link

On February 10, 1980, Brian Ingram, then eight years old, was with his family on a picnic when he found $5,880 in decaying bills (a total of 294 $20 bills),

(...)

it was proven that the money found by Ingram was part of the ransom given to Cooper(...)

Ingram was eventually allowed to keep $2,860 of this money. On June 13, 2008, in accordance with Ingram's wishes, the Heritage Auction Galleries' Americana Memorabilia Grand Format Auction in Dallas, Texas sold fifteen of the bills to various buyers for a total of more than $37,000.[38]

Mark G, Monday, 29 September 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

HAARP project scientist busted for fraud - pleas out with the Feds http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/haarp-fraud/

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 11 May 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

eleven months pass...

DoD shuts down HAARP
http://www.ktoo.org/2014/04/14/haarp-research-facility-shut/

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link

Shutting it down is obviously the perfect cover.

I feel like HAARP has taken the place of scientific Climate Change theories. Like for many libertarian types, they can just point to crazy weather and say it proves HAARP did it rather than Al Gore.

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link

the other night I had someone telling me that the Rockefellers engineered the feminist movement to take people's attention away from the ~real~ issues.

Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link

Because the anniversary is in the news I spent some time going down the rabbit hole of Boston Marathon Bombing conspiracy weirdos. Which led to the amusing spectacle of infowars/alex jones types arguing **with each other** over whether Jeff Bauman and other victims were actors or not. Some came down firmly on the side of these people OBVIOUSLY being actors, others were of the opinion that this was so obviously a false flag operation by the US intelligence community that introducing the idea of "crisis actors" was unnecessary.

It's scary to think that probably 10% of the people around you at any given time are absolutely shithouse-rat crazy.

bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:18 (ten years ago) link

There is a conspiracy (of course) that the recent lost Malaysian airplane was actually piloted by remote and steered off course to a remote location, to later be used in a FF. Because that is so much easier than just using a random plane no-one has ever heard of.

▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link

Jesus, just the comments in that link ET posted.

djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link

9/11 too low imo

make flowers on me (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

"I had a feeling [the shooter, Larry Steve McQuilliams] was a white man, and you can be sure the hostile aliens who really control the country are going to use this against US," wrote "Volodyamyr."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/white-supremacists-worry-austin-antigovernment-shooting-will-harm-their-reputations/

polyphonic, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link

via Ned, probably somewhere else on ILE

polyphonic, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link

Others, like “FatherOdin,” agreed, claiming that “once the media picks up this story we will once again hear nonstop about how all Whites are racist, anti-government, violent threats to America.”

...

“The Federal Government is anti-white! The Federal Government is a lawless out of control violent mob! The only solution to the Federal Government is secession!”

isn't advocating secession a violent anti-government threat to America I am confused

Οὖτις, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link

eight months pass...

So now that Mercedes is apparently vulnerable to the same types of hacking as GM, Jeep, etc. I'd love to see a proof-of-concept hack on the C250 that Michael Hastings was driving.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link

You mean like, could it be hacked back then? Not following

Iago Galdston, Saturday, 15 August 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link

The big talks at both Black Hat and Defcon hacking conferences were all about car hacking remotely:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
http://www.eweek.com/security/slideshows/black-hat-defcon-put-car-hacking-web-privacy-on-center-stage.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540441/carmakers-accelerate-security-efforts-after-hacking-stunts/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/212251-todays-car-hacks-bmw-chrysler-mercedes-benz-on-ios
http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-hack-a-corvette-with-a-text-message/

The upshot is that these vulnerabilities are more common and far easier to exploit than what was previously thought. Would love to know if a 2013 Mercedes C250 (what Hastings was driving) can be hacked and taken over similar to what the conspiracy theory dictates - lock the door, floor the gas, and disable the brakes.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 August 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link

None of which proves anything of course. There are far easier ways to knock people off the playing field than a remote-controlled car hack, but I've always thought that the circumstances around it were interesting.

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 16 August 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link

Thanks for the comprehensive reply, Elvis

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 16 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8MNiMARh5c

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 August 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link

Geocentric theory is coming back fwiw.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 August 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Might as well link this here, too. Why have a cruise for fans of one conspiracy theory when you could do them all?

http://www.divinetravels.com/ConspiraSeaCruise2016.html

(here's the donotlink for those not wanting to contribute to their google results: http://www.donotlink.com/gamz )

Note the guest list.

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link

Is it safe for them all to be on the same boat? Bit of an easy target for the illuminati / lizard people / alien overlords / big pharma / Jews who run the government.

AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:50 (eight years ago) link

Aha! Andy Wakefield! So good to see you again

Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link


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