List conspiracy theories here.

It ends with "of the world" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPKlrRwJB8A

i remember noting the odd bears' spelling as a child. qed.

haha yeah that "...of the world" thing did legitimately freak me out for a while until I actually listened to the song. c'mon

like half that list is just "I bet you thought this word was spelled like THIS, but actually..."

"life was like a box of chocolates"?

i have a friend who's like a mandela effect truther and he swears it all has something to do with quantum computing and CERN

O_o

xp does he also believe CERN is responsible for things like trump's election, cubs winning world series, pats comeback in superbowl

From a Wall Street Journal article about the neo-Nazi rally in Poland last weekend: 'The Radical Camp’s followers argue, on their social-media accounts and in their literature, that the influx of Syrian refugees into Europe is part of a conspiracy driven by Jewish financiers, who are working with Communists in the European Union to bring Muslims into Europe, and with them, Shariah law and homosexuality.'

many people think chartreuse is close to maroon, and i did too when younger. i don't think this means we live in the matrix but it's fascinating to ponder how this misconception was propagated.

Like many people I got a little obsessed with the Mandela effect for a time, it's fascinating because of how stupid it is, in a way that feels very current somehow. I know a lot of conspiracy theories are dumb but here the stupid definitely outweighs the crazy, all these Reddit morons spinning wild theories about the ~strange phenomenon~ of... misremembering something

& like basically every single example is just a commonly misquoted line from a film

A cosmic reality-bending phenomenon that only ever affects garbage ephemera, it's perfect bathos

mandela effect is not current, it's evergreen because people really hate admitting they're wrong about something

mandela-effect youtubes abt jfk are like the kideodrome of csi

god these mandela effect things are so DUMB

ppl are morons, we are doomed

omg did u know chartreuse is not purple?
um yeah i did bcz there’s a terrible tasting liquor named after it that i drank in college and it’s fuckin GREEN the same color as allll of my puke that night

fuck off u stupid kids jfc

Seriously if it was ever Chic-fil-a everyone would have pronounced it sheek-fil-Ayy

otm

Is it ok if we talk about George HW Bush? Whats this think about paedophilia with young boys being taken from care homes to the white house, or similar?

It feels like every conspiracy theory ends up somewhere close to Bush I, and its not surprising. Reluctant to look into it too much (why does the right have such a fixation on this?!), esp with all the pizzagate palaver. Anyone got a primer?

who the fuck thought that Mandela died in 1983 !?

No paedophile conspiracy theory has ever amounted to anything iirc

XP morons

queen died over xmas, tories persuaded the palace to keep it quiet till after the article 50 announcement: election was called, they asked for an extension and the palace very reluctantly agreed

everything turned to shit, they are stuck with it -- the lookalike stand-in is getting fed, she's old and planned to retire properly

(i don't really understand why the palace is so willing to help theresa may out in this narrative, but there it is)

It feels like every conspiracy theory ends up somewhere close to [/s]Bush I[/s] the Clintons

fixed that for you.

xp reminds me the story of the ottoman sultan who died, and to avoid tumult while they got their fraught succession process in order, they propped his body up so he could be seen at a ceremony in topkapi palace and moved his arms like a puppet to quell rumours of his demise amongst the janissaries.

idk why we don't replace the queen with a robot tbh

'replace'

http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef011570f3ee36970b-pi

Must watch Kagemusha again.

From that list rip van wanko posted upthread:

The famous wienermobile can be seen rolling along in any major city, but something you may not have known about the famous hot dog company is that their name is actually spelled "Mayer."

THEIR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN FOR YEARS WAS SPELLING OUT THEIR NAME IN THEIR FUCKING COMMERCIALS.

maybe in *your* dimension

i hadn't heard about nibiru/planet x conspiracy until just now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

my baloney has a second name, it's c-h-e-m traillllls

Oscar Pistorius has at least one full leg

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/12/movie-doesn-t-exist-and-redditors-who-think-it-does

poppy bush pops up in a surprising number of conspiracy theories but maybe it's not too surprising considering how many actual conspiracies (iran-contra) he seems to have been involved in.

also his dad led an actual plot to install fascism in the usa iirc

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Trilateral.svg

who the fuck thought that Mandela died in 1983 !?

― Ste, Friday, November 17, 2017 3:24 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, mandela being released from jail was a massive news story. from my recollection of childhood it could really only be compared to things like the falling of the berlin wall (judging this purely on how often it was on the news and how big a deal was made of it).

personally i also saw him on a stage in george square dancing in 1993 so that helps too.

yeah that mandela one was O_o

and the Berenstain bears thing, like, I even had a dream as a kid about the weirdness of the spelling

Morgellons disease

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jezebel.com/real-delusions-of-an-unreal-disease-a-history-of-morge-1696912437/amp

I think at its heart it’s a mental illness, but it attracts the fringes is society

poppy bush pops up in a surprising number of conspiracy theories but maybe it's not too surprising considering how many actual conspiracies (iran-contra) he seems to have been involved in.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:21 (yesterday) Permalink

Exactly, right? I mean, there are 3 types of conspiracy. ones that are now pretty accepted as true, ones that are crazy - but then the ones that are inbetween, or where people take something and run way too far with it. With Bush's young boys one its wanting to know how far down that line it is

re scott's expedition to the pole: when they realised the plight they were in, the four officers knocked petty officer evans on the head and ate him

when they realised that wasn't enough, oates ran away into a blizzard rather than be eaten

You have your porridge

Scott eating Oates was a Red Dwarf joke.

scott eating evans is no joke

competitive elections are bad for america

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/trump-census-pick-causes-alarm-252571

Is it ok if we talk about George HW Bush? Whats this think about paedophilia with young boys being taken from care homes to the white house, or similar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gosch

http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-5/

Kirov wasn't assassinated outside the Smolny Institute, he was actually shot by the embittered husband of one of his lovers whilst he was fucking her on his office desk. The conspiracy around it was about preserving his rep and the NKVD security covering up their incompetence. Bigger than JFK is this mother!

https://theconversation.com/can-withering-public-trust-in-government-be-traced-back-to-the-jfk-assassination-87719

my friend died in the iraq war

it was reported as an ambush

i think the powers that be used him and his unit as bait