Which is one conspiracy theory that you think/believe may have some verity to it?

Just because conspiracies likely do happen on a regular basis doesn't mean that any popular conspiracy theory has found one.

Remember, the big conspiracies like Watergate or the NSA leaks where not uncovered by conspiracy theorists. They where not uncovered by cherry-picking factoids from public government statements and "doing ones own research" aka using Google. They were uncovered by whistleblowers speaking out and journalists double-checking and following up on information they were given.

The 9/11 was an inside job stuff, but only the part where part of the US government knew that something was going to happen and let it happen. That gave them the opportunity to set up stuff like the Patriot Act and gave them a (wonky) reason to invade the middle east.

My own personal conspiracy theory is that Flat Earthers, Anti-vaxxers and all the other "Facebook boomer" conspiracies are just a strategy to discredit other "more real" conspiracies: if you believe that 9/11 was an inside job you're bundled with people that believe that Earth is a frisbee and smart people don't want that so they keep themselves from exploring anything else.
Also aliens fucked apes and that's how we got here.

I'm not sure if this counts as a conspiracy, but I wholeheartedly believe that aliens are real, but that we have no way of ever contacting them or confirming their existence because they're so damn far away

Mark Felton did a 6 episode series on YT on how the alleged burnt bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun found by the soviets, are actually plants.

Not that Hitler survived the war or anything, they were just buried elsewhere nearby, probably in a civilian mass grave, to prevent the soviets from parading the real bodies around.

The sheer number of fake elections in history.

That majority of the opinions online are created and manipulated by special interest groups. All mainstream sites are astroturfed to steer discussion.

This is going to be my comeback the next time I get called a conspiracy theorist. Not that I am much of one or discuss them very often.

We definitely aren't told the whole story on 911. There's so many wierd pieces like the dancing Israelis, the Pentagon footage, the 'crash site' in the field seemingly void of most of the expected debris, and tower 5 collapsing after office equipment caught fire somehow. It's the only time in history that 3 buildings were hit by 2 planes and collapsed into their own footprint from fire damage. Tower 5 is the smoking gun, look into that one.

The JFK assassination. Wendigoon did an excellent video (he's quite passionate about it, he has a full on whiteboard to go through all the facts). There's definitely more to that than we know. Crucial evidence being 'lost', audio of the gunshots, direction of the bullets... the person signalling with the umbrella on a sunny day..

Just to mix things up a bit, water erosion around the sphinx. You can clearly see in old photos the water erosion from flooding. The last time that area was flooded was thousands of years before the supposed age of the sphinx. There's also the tiny head and massive body, indicating that the head was recarved at some point. Then there's the complete lack of hieroglyphics inside the pyramids, while everywhere else, temples, tombs, etc have hieroglyphs everywhere. Perfectly circular drilled holes in granite, scoop marks in the granite around a half carved obelisk, and the sheer weight of the obelisks themselves. I'm not saying aliens but definitely technology existed back then that we are unaware of. Probably not like modern technology but very advanced and clever cranes etc.

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When I was a budding IT guy, the conspiracy theory that the five eyes nations were spying on each other and giving the intelligence to each other to get around rules prohibiting domestic spying was largely regarded as a paranoid conspiracy theory.

Network engineers that worked in internet backbone connectivity said there was no other really viable explanation for some of the patterns that were seeing and I believed these people after looking over some things they posted.

Well, eventually they were vindicted and the truth came out.

Ever since then, I've been a little slower to dismiss conspiracy theories.

Do I think JFK jr is coming back to lead The Storm, reinstate Trump, and finally put an end up the adrenochrome illuminati? No. But I'm a little more open minded than I used to be.

Living in emulation. I believe calling it simulation wouldn't be correct, we'd be more like a video game. If there was somehow a computer powerful enough to actually emulate real world, we wouldn't be able to tell if we're in it. And we'd still be real regardless, just on a computer.

I believe the Disney Channel with their over serialization of minors is responsible for a lot of pedophilia that is going on.

CIA blew up the Nordstream pipeline.

I believe that the United States government operated a scheme by which they secretly armed the Nicaraguan contras in exchange for cocaine, which the cia sold in the United States and used that money to fund Iran. All against the law and without congressional approval.

I believe that the American federal bureau of investigation kept tabs on, infiltrated, assassinated, and otherwise actively disrupted left wing causes for at least half of the latter half of the 20th century, and may continue to do so.

I believe the cia dosed a lot of people with lsd without their consent in attempts to control minds. All without informing any higher ups or democratically elected officials.

I believe the cia has actively worked to undermine and overthrow democratically elected left leaning governments around the world whenever that comes into conflict with the interests of American wealth holders.

Modern ones, I have some suspicions based on leaks from somewhat trusted sources, but it’s not like historical ones where there’s such clear evidence and often confessions, which is part of why American ones are so prevalent here, we do like documenting what our government does.

That the US Government killed MLK. I looked at the Wikipedia article (I'm saying my knowledge is not that in-depth, don't @ me), and the case in either direction is less than compelling to me. I'd say if the government didn't kill King, it would have been a matter of time.

Agents of the US government purposefully destroyed Billy Holiday.

Also, during prohibition, the US government knowingly poisoned alcohol with the intent of harming people that drank illegally manufactured booze.

That's tricky, because "conspiracy theory" implies a level of deception that makes falsifiability of anything difficult. Like, if somebody starts chatting me up on the street and I wonder if I'm going to get scammed or jumped, that's a theory about a conspiracy, but it's not a conspiracy theory because it only involves a few people and I still can be sure what's up and what's down.

Epstein being murdered gets called a conspiracy theory, but if a couple of guards, a warden and a single wealthy instigator were the only participants, and they were really sloppy covering it up, is that really so implausible?

Absolutely none of them.

That Covid was made.

I dont really think its true, but the richest get richer with every catastrophe, people actually believe "everything just gets more expensive" (which is absolute bullshit and rich people just use it to make more profits). Also, genetically modifying some viruses should be totally possible today.

The Helen Keller conspiracy feels like it could be a real.