Anti Conspiracy Theories - a place to discuss the stuff you’re seeing online that’s winding you up!

Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
1
Justhereforthebants said:
The thing that annoys me about these people is they are forever saying do not believe anything you see/read in mainstream media. Yet all I do is see them sharing articles from mainstream media outlets because it suits their narrative. If there was an article in the Sun, for example, that was saying how important mask wearing is or talking about covid deaths. They’re found laughing the the comments section, arguing with people about covid being fake blah blah. However, the Sun could put out an article saying WOMAN DIES 2 DAYS AFTER VACCINE and they would be sharing this as proof to back up their theory.
I’ve had to unfriend someone relatively close to me on Facebook as she’s far too much with it all. Claims to know for a fact that we will be in lockdown until 2025 because she’s seen “evidence”. These people drive me mad, covid has definitely brought out the worst in them!
Click to expand...

This is why I drifted away from conspiracy theorys, I noticed a while ago that they would dismiss official data as lies (be it 911, moon landings etc) then a short while later they will always cherry pick certain bits to prove their case. If you don't believe the official narrative then you can't use parts of that same narrative to suit your beliefs.
 
I don’t understand how they figure out what sources they do trust. I can understand a mistrust of the media to an extent sure but the links they post are all dodgy looking websites I’ve never heard of or very odd looking videos. What is it that makes them think they are trustworthy sources?
 
There’s this one CT I follow on Instagram and she has gone weirdly quiet since it came out that actually, we’re not going to be kept prisoners for life and the vaccines aren’t a form of ‘control’. It’s quite amusing how they just go quiet once they realise their theory’s don’t align with what is happening in the real world after being 100% adamant before.
 
Bitofthebubbly said:
There’s this one CT I follow on Instagram and she has gone weirdly quiet since it came out that actually, we’re not going to be kept prisoners for life and the vaccines aren’t a form of ‘control’. It’s quite amusing how they just go quiet once they realise their theory’s don’t align with what is happening in the real world after being 100% adamant before.
Click to expand...
I am sure they will find some other conspiracy to complain about before long :LOL:
 
So out of 12 months my business has been closed for 8 of them so had a lot of time on my hands and I seriously fell though the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, Facebook groups, Telegram groups, Twitter profiles and at one point I genuinely believed all this Pizza Gate stuff was going to come out!
It’s literally like a cult and it’s so damaging to people’s mental health and to relationships!
All groups have now been unfollowed and I’m on a massive conspiracy detox!
 
_chx_ said:
So out of 12 months my business has been closed for 8 of them so had a lot of time on my hands and I seriously fell though the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, Facebook groups, Telegram groups, Twitter profiles and at one point I genuinely believed all this Pizza Gate stuff was going to come out!
It’s literally like a cult and it’s so damaging to people’s mental health and to relationships!
All groups have now been unfollowed and I’m on a massive conspiracy detox!
Click to expand...
well done for getting out of it! this whole disaster is really a gift to all these CTs in my opinion, not only the covid ones, but also like you said people just bored and online more
 
emm said:
well done for getting out of it! this whole disaster is really a gift to all these CTs in my opinion, not only the covid ones, but also like you said people just bored and online more
Click to expand...

Definitely! People have had so much time to watch the documentaries, time to read through pages and pages of ‘proof’.
I got sent a link to a 10 part video on YouTube and it was like a Netflix series, you binge it and want more, and you want to watch something similar so you research more, and get further and further in to it.
I will still always love CT like aliens though 👽🛸
 
Honestly the more I read CT posts/opinions the more I convinced that there’s a link with narcissism.

The need to believe they understand something everyone else doesn’t and feel special 🥴

Don’t worry even when this ends it won’t mean they were wrong, course not, now we have a potential road map for getting out of restrictions apparently it’s still a conspiracy as we are now all grateful just to be allowed out. Ok hun 😅
 
JLXRD said:
Honestly the more I read CT posts/opinions the more I convinced that there’s a link with narcissism.

The need to believe they understand something everyone else doesn’t and feel special 🥴

Don’t worry even when this ends it won’t mean they were wrong, course not, now we have a potential road map for getting out of restrictions apparently it’s still a conspiracy as we are now all grateful just to be allowed out. Ok hun 😅
Click to expand...
i think someone posted this here before https://www.psypost.org/2020/06/mac...linked-to-belief-in-conspiracy-theories-57103
very interesting read

_chx_ said:
Definitely! People have had so much time to watch the documentaries, time to read through pages and pages of ‘proof’.
I got sent a link to a 10 part video on YouTube and it was like a Netflix series, you binge it and want more, and you want to watch something similar so you research more, and get further and further in to it.
I will still always love CT like aliens though 👽🛸
Click to expand...
yeah one of my friends has become the same, she started to become increasingly right wing a few years ago because of her Tory bf, constantly publishing things from the spectator/telegraph etc. Recently it has become articles about how china made the virus in a lab, as if this disaster has been some kind of benefit for them that would make that make any sense :rolleyes:
 
So I commented this on a sky news thing on YouTube (Mostly to wind up some thick, wanky conspiracy theorists also, my name isn’t Ellie Turner. Just my fake YouTube name 😏) and honestly the comments underneath are just hilarious. I love winding them up 😂
 

Attachments

  • D696DD64-E89F-4EC5-857D-06ABC255EE48.png
    D696DD64-E89F-4EC5-857D-06ABC255EE48.png
    29.6 KB · Views: 114
Well Facebook has gone bonkers today on my local BBC page after they shared the news about the Queen urging people to get vaccinated (funny how the CTs are all so scathing of BBC as a news source and yet they follow their pages ready to comment on everything).

This was one comment in response to someone saying she plans to keep her family safe...

"No, you will do what you're told regardless of what is safe for your family. You are obedient to the state and will blindly agree to whatever they force on you. When they tell you you have to have weekly anal swab tests, you'll agree happily and eagerly. When they say you have to wear a full-face mask with only holes for you eyes, you'll agree. When they ask you to hand over your children to be used for vaccine experiments, you will not hesitate in making the ultimate sacrifice. Big Brother is now your God and you worship him."

There was much more than this but honestly, it makes my head hurt....
 
I posted on our own CT thread a couple of days back out of anger more than anything. Not complaining about the thread here but seeing
Tweets, Facebook links, YouTube videos being posted as fact is just so so dangerous.
I think when I saw some tweets being posted here, in regards to something that had been arranged by an Irish CT nut job I snapped.
I really should have just left alone 🤦‍♀️

I feel for so many who are really getting themselves upset because they’ve taken the vaccine and they’ve been convinced now that it will hurt them,
vulnerable people falling for this tit.

I need to keep away from it all but these people don’t see the damage they’re doing.
 
Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
Back
Top