I find people who believe in conspiracies so odd. Yet there are no end of systems and activities actually going on that could be classed as conspiracies yet people don't seem to mind that. I'm talking of large companies paying little tax, the fact that the UK's social mobility is declining etc..
I keep seeing the explanation why people fall for conspiracies by experts being that it's not socio-economic status or education, it's feeling helpless, powerless. Which is fine and makes sense.
But I think there's more to it, like this quote.
There's real ways in which the world is fcked up, it is known by now that some big things really happened, eg the US did actually experiments, with vaccines in Pakistan and parts of Africa in the deprived areas and experimented, the US also experimented on its own citizens without their knowledge or consent with nuclear radiation experiments, then cases of natives being made infertile against their will and without their knowledge, wars that have been started on false premises (Iraq for instance), even the Nato bombing countries going against all international law and never facing any type of consequences or war trials, then one recent civil war and one side gets massive punishment and the other gets a slap on the wrist even though atrocities by both sides were equally disturbing, plus all the ways in which governments and corporations fck with citizens, and this is just stuff from the late 1900s to early 2000s (and now).
I think stuff like this is a big reason why people then do believe in (some) conspiracies, because these things are known and written about even by the "MSM", so then people think they are "in" on the "next big secret" or whatever.
Believing all US politicians are pdos except Trump is proper insane.
At the same time, to take something very current that just broke the news, how often does one read in celeb comments sections "Armie Hammer is an abusive pos and cheats on his wife", they seem happy, then the divorce and now all these things coming out (to keep this brief).
The spread of mis- and disinformation, plus the flood of actual valid information, we just can't deal to process all the real stuff, but then it's all in the same place, the mis- and disinformation plus the true stuff, then knowledge of actual shyte that went and still goes on and you're quicker in a hole believing shyte than anyone thinks possible.
Imo some of the major reasons to not believe the Covid and Q conspiracies (which are too insane to believe anyway, but let's entertain the idea that they might be possible) are:
Q: Can anyone really believe that all politicians are pdos
except one, and that
one person has the power to put a stop to this? What makes T so powerful and able to put a stop to sth like this to begin with? How is it statistically and realistically possible that
all politicians are pdos and perform human sacrifices and make a serum made from babies blood to "stay young and healthy" and yet they all are and look old as hell and frankly some look like shyte. I mean this literally doesn't even compute.
Covid: So the
whole world is in on this conspiracy, even though some countries (eg USA and China, and there are many countries that hate each others' guts due to shyte history between them) can't stand each other
at all and constantly try to undermine each other and reveal shyte about each other via their intelligence, yet, through some miracle, all countries of this world are in on the same conspiracy, can't agree on trade, but can agree on this?
Plus the chip thing. This was entertaining in the 1990s, but these morons don't seem to be able to grasp that they are chipped far better and more efficient through their computers, mobile phones, social media, apps. TikTok is actually used by the Chinese government as spying tool, sounds like another conspiracy, but hey. People film their surroundings, put their schedules in their mobiles, connect all their accounts and yet somehow some tiny-ass chip with no ability except tracking locations is somehow going to be implemented, even though your phone and phone/computer usage already does that? What is even the point of a chip in this day and age of mobiles and social media????
Chipping is equivalent to getting rid of your phone in favour of a fax machine. Chips are old useless technology and can't do much except track location and do payments and open doors (as used in Sweden by some nutty people), literally what your phone already can do.
If anyone managed to read all this: Thanks for reading this daft novel of a rant.
Edit: Plus, epi- and pandemics have existed all throughout human history. They exist specific to plants as well (there are several flora pandemics currently raging as well, one affecting trees in Europe and one affecting bananas in South America). What on earth makes these people think that a pandemic is so impossible? I literally heard people say "this never happened in my life!! [that's why it's impossibly real]"
"because it will disappear soon [meant summer 2020], it's proof that it's a virus made in a lab" and then by the same person "because it goes on this long [said ca. Oct 2020] it's proof it's made in a lab", like, fcking hell, fcking WHAT???
There are constantly some epi- and pandemics and yet people lose their shyte and think it's impossible just because now such a major one happened in their lifetime. Open a book, read some history ffs.
I said I was....then asked if my daughter would not be accepting the vaccine....(she is a student nurse) what frightened me the most about her state of mind was when she leaned in and told me she was giving me some information and I was to make sure I was stocked up fully with food, camping equipment etc as on either the 16th or 21st December the power was being turned off.....
I asked why? And she told me to go home and look up the great reset!! It was scary to see someone who used to be so rational and quite knowledgeable reduced to this quite manic person!! She said she had deleted all her mental health nurse friends from facebook and that made me think she knows deep down that they would be concerned for her......all her facebook is now is conspiracy theories about the vaccine etc!! At the end of the conversation her daughter who is around 8 actually said.....have you watched the hunger games?? I said yes and she said well that is what the world is going to be like very shortly!!! 
The one about recommending you "do your own research", you're right, so patronising! And yet their so-called "research" seems to consist only of watching videos on You Tube from crazies in America, or self-appointed "doctors" and they will. only share screenshots of made-up stats with no source material, no actual, scientific papers!
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