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“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers)

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Most of us, hearing words like “secret,” “CIA” and “coverup” tend to immediately imagine tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy theorists. More often than not then not, this is the case, but to paraphrase the old saying, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. So the more facts you learn about different parts of history, science and technology, the more unusual you realize the world really is.
Someone asked “What’s something that sounds like a conspiracy theory but is actually true?” and people shared the best examples that they knew. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to comment your own examples below.

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#1

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The chemicals in the water are turning the frogs gay.

Atrazine, a chemical produced by the pesticide company Syngenta has been proven to mess with the endocrine system of frogs and turn them into hermaphrodites and can even cause them to display homosexual behavior, preferring the company of other male frogs rather than females ones.

It can also cause prostate cancer and birth defects and is in the drinking water of several states, so yeah, there's that too.

AlrightInsight , Pixabay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

20points

cerinamroth 40 minutes ago

If there's one way to get conservatives behind the environmental movement, it's this!

0points

#2

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Many prisons in the US are private, for-profit companies. They get paid by the head, and also employ the prisoners for pennies per hour to do work like telemarketing. You've probably talked to a prisoner on the phone without realizing.

sonic_tower , RDNE Stock project/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

17points

Johnny McFearless 2 hours ago

Yes, slavery in the southern states was just replaced by prison system.

5points

#3

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The McDonalds PR machine tried to ruin Stella Liebeck’s life. That coffee was so hot it melted her clothing to her genitals. People still believe she was at fault. I turn it around and ask how they’d feel if a parent accidentally spilled coffee on their child that was so hot it melted the child’s clothes to her/his body. Somehow it usually wakes people up.

SensuallDoll , Lisa Fotios/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

17points

Bob Brooce 1 hour ago

Anyone who sides with McDonald's on this is either uninformed or a moron, IMHO. They deliberately make the coffee dangerous because they can get a bit more brewed coffee per pound.

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#4

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The US and the UK conspired to overthrow Iran's democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restore the autocratic regime of the Pahlavi monarchy. They did this because Mosaddegh tried to nationalize Iran's oil industry.

JusticeFrankMurphy , fararu Report

17points

Lucifer 4 hours ago

If there was oil, the US tried and sometimes succeeded in overthrowing governments. Iran was just one of them.

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#5

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) That corporations openly bribe politicians to get what they want

They call it lobbying to get away with it.

Naughty07Rose , August de Richelieu/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

17points

SCP 4666 4 hours ago

Yeah the world and the countries are governd by corporations not politicians. It's no big secret imo

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#6

In 2016 a former reality tv show host vying for political office began working to convince citizens of the United States that the election he was participating in was rigged, only to learn that he had actually won the election. 4 years later in 2020, when seeking re-election, this same politician attempted to again convince the citizens of the United States that the very same election process that had given him his then current position was rigged... this time of course he lost the election. This time however he had in fact convinced a large number of people that the election was rigged.

...**And now I can't have a normal family dinner because its apparently a conspiracy that the United States of America has a voting system that works.**.

16points

Skogsrået 3 hours ago

Sorry to tell you americans but your voting system is rigged and have been so for a long time, it's rigged by the republicans and to their advantage.

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#7

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) In 2002 a cable technician named Mark Klein working for AT&T in San Francisco was sitting at his desk when he received an email from his bosses that a representative from the National Security Agency (NSA) would be coming to visit for some unspecified reason. He was to give this NSA technician access to a cable substation for him to perform some work. The tech did his thing and Mark moved on without thinking anything of it.

A year later in 2003, Mark was transferred to that cable substation and by chance was assigned to monitor the “Internet Room”. This was the room where all the fiber optic ocean cables that carry the countries internet traffic terminate. While he was reviewing engineering drawings, he realized that the schematics revealed a secret room. More importantly, the plans showed cabinets filled with fiber optic splitters coming off every cable and feeding into the secret room. And to make it even crazier, neither he nor anyone on his team had access to the secret room.

Through his investigation, he discovered that the NSA representative he had escorted the previous year had worked to install this system which was sending a copy of all the internet traffic that passed through the substation straight to the NSA. In other words, he had proof that the federal government had the capacity to tap into all internet traffic in the country. And I mean all of it. Every email, instant message, electronic sale, medical or criminal records, research databases. Everything. Complete unrestricted access.

Like any sane person, he was extremely disturbed by this discovery. He went to his higher ups but was essentially told to just keep it quiet. After retiring in 2004, he linked up with a group called Electronic Frontier Foundation and essentially blew the whistle. He did interviews and handed over all his evidence to reporters.

I watched one of these interviews in 2006 which is how I know about this story. I remember thinking it was so obvious once he explained it. Why wouldn’t the NSA tap into the internet traffic in the age of the war on terror? I’d watched Enemy of the State. But nothing happened. No one I spoke to seemed to believe it and Mark Klein’s story eventually seemed to just fade away.

7 years later, in 2013, Edward Snowden leaked documents essentially confirming EVERYTHING and then some. But to this day everyone looks at me like a crazy person when I talk about knowing about it as early as 2006.

FriendlyEngineer , Democracy Now! Report

15points

Sofia 4 hours ago

is called Echelon if I am not wrong... Can monitor everything (without causing delay) and also registering important conversation that contains specific keywords and stuff

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#8

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) In the 60s and 70s, thousands of Native American women were sterilized without their consent as part of a practice to sterilize poor and minority women to "help their financial situation and their family's quality of life" by preventing unwanted pregnancies in poor communities.

Some were not informed at all and had it done to them completely without their knowledge, others were threatened with having their healthcare taken away if they did not agree to have it done to them. Some studies estimate that as many as 25-50% of Native American women were sterilized in the 1970s, representing tens of thousands of victims.

This is essentially a modern day genocide in the United States.

Dreamy21Lady , Karolina Kaboompics/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

15points

Lucifer 4 hours ago

Federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century. Beginning in 1909 and continuing for 70 years, California led the country in the number of sterilization procedures performed on men and women, often without their full knowledge and consent.

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#9

GM, IBM, and Ford played a major role in rearming Germany in the 1930s. George Bush's grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of the German forces.

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15points

Rayne OfSalt 40 minutes ago

That's all just true, it doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory at all. The USA was still selling iron and oil to Germany and Japan as late in WW2 as 1942.

2points

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#10

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) **”Big Tobacco Cover-Up”** is a prime example. For decades, tobacco companies knew about the harmful and addictive effects of smoking but actively suppressed research, manipulated data, and marketed cigarettes as safe. It wasn’t until the 1990s, after internal documents were leaked, that the truth about their deceitful practices was fully exposed.

TheNaughtyMare_ , Petar Starčević/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

15points

Sofia 4 hours ago

I remember having read a book of memories of a IIWW veteran, wich uncle died on throat cancer and the doctor stated called it "smokers illness" - so althought they couldnt' have had studies they knew that there was acorrelation

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#11

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Nestle's baby formula scandal

Nestle aggressively marketed baby formula to mothers in developing countries by giving free samples to hospitals and buying up billboards. The mothers would use them instead of breast milk and eventually stop producing breast milk. Then they'd need to buy formula to continue feeding their babies. Formula needed to be mixed with water but because they often didn't have clean water, they'd put their babies at risk mixing the formula with unclean water. Also, literacy rates were lower in a lot of those places so the mothers didn't know how to clean the bottles and couldn't read the instructions on the packaging. Those that did often didn't have the means to carry them out. A lot of them being poorer also resorted to watering down the formula to try and make it last longer but then it wouldn't have enough nutrients for the baby.

Nestle downplayed all of this and said it wasn't their responsibility that people here didn't really have access to clean water and that they were just giving people the freedom of choice.

indianajoes , Sarah Chai/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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GenuineJen 2 hours ago

Interesting how Nestle was also involved in a bottled water scandal... Hmmm. Although it seems they weren't related, it definitely sounds fishy.

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#12

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Amelia Earhart landed on an uninhabited Pacific island and died as a castaway, making distress calls for days that were initially acted upon, then later disavowed by the Navy as 'hoaxes' after their botched search failed to find the plane.

Three years later, bones were found by the British military on the island next to parts of a woman's shoe. The bones were misidentified as male by an unqualified examiner and then lost. Measurements of the bones were later unearthed from the British records and when run through modern forensics were proven to be Northern European female.

zigthis , Underwood & Underwood Report

14points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 46 minutes ago

No proof she landed on an island.

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#13

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) That we know covid harms our brains, hearts, immune systems and that every infection does more harm
:(.

Renmarkable , Anna Shvets/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

14points

AndThenICommented 26 minutes ago

I lost a small bit of my hearing. I think I’m still in denial and think it will come back, but studies show if it doesn’t within a couples months then it’s gone - it’s been a year.

0points

#14

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen Operation Paperclip yet. After defeating the N*zis, the US government gave 1600 of them government jobs here.

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13points

Lucifer 4 hours ago

The US, UK & Russia all tried to get Nazi scientists into their country. Wernher von Braun, chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that took US to the moon was a Jr. SS officer of the SS equestrian unit.

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#15

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The Maxwell and Epstein stuff .. essentially the tip of the iceberg of high profile human trafficking and p*dophilia that goes virtually unmentioned.

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Nils Skirnir 3 hours ago

Except most of the users aren’t democrats or progressive. Most are over-wealthy right wingers

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#16

Around a month ago russian state media got caught spending millions on american YouTubers to ensure they are worried about immigration n s**t. Tim pool, dave Rubin. .

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13points

Nils Skirnir 2 hours ago

Russian oligarchs were the prime investors in PayPal, which gave us a whole slew of ultra right wing billionaires as Thiel and Musk

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#17

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The war in Ukraine started in 2014 but the media reports that it started in 2022.

ElPeacePro , Mathias Reding Mathias Reding/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

13points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 42 minutes ago

From 2014 to 2022 US Army Rangers, Green Berets and a California National Guard unit trained the Ukrainian army. That's all Obama would commit after the Crimea was stolen.

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#18

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Operation Snow White

Basically, during the 70s the Church of Scientology was concerned with all the bad press surrounding them and all the other dirt on them that could be released. So they used a huge number of contacts that they had in various US government agencies to destroy all negative information about the church of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard. The crazy thing is, they succeeded with much of the plan before they were caught. There was a s**t-ton of negative info on Scientology in the 70s, possibly enough to destroy the church, and it'll never see the light of day because they used their huge influence to have it destroyed.

GazelleSome6177 , Joshua Santos/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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TennesseeHomesteadUSA 41 minutes ago

Largest infiltration of the US guvment ever.

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#19

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The Greenbrier Bunker. People love conspiracies about huge underground complexes built for the rich and famous to survive nuclear fallouts (think Denver airport), and that's *exactly what Greenbrier is*. The bunker was built under the Greenbrier Resort for congresspeople to escape to, and was kept a secret for 30 years, even though people suspected ("why's there a 7,000 foot air strip for a town of 3,000 people?"). For the entire time it was functional, every congressperson was assigned a bunk. These days you can take tours, and I'm sure we'll hear about the next bunker once it's defunct.

Own_Possession_1769 , The A. W. Smith News Agency, Charleston, W. Va. "Tichnor Quality Views," Report

12points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 40 minutes ago

The New York Times snitched out the bunker. The purpose of doing such always escaped me.

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#20

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The pentagon has an insane number of bathrooms because as they were building it, the segregation of bathrooms ended.

Petite_0Doll , Pixabay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

12points

#21

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Israel knew the USS Liberty was an American ship.

xanif , U.S. Navy Report

12points

Skogsrået 3 hours ago

Israel is comitting genocide in Palestina, the victims have become the perpetrators and nobody says or does anything about it. If you dare to critize them you are labeled as an antisemit and ostracized by everyone. They are now attacking and killing innocent people outside their borders and nobody bats an eye.

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#22

The Stolen Generation in Australia

Up until the f*****g 1950s the Australian government, euthanized, sterilised and ripped children from their parents in order to try to "civilise" the native Aboriginal people by educating the black out of them.

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12points

Rayne OfSalt 27 minutes ago

1950s? Try 1970s. It was an on-going program from the early 1910s and carried on until the late 1970s.

0points

#23

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The UK government secretly tested biological weapons on its own coastal towns to see how far they could make it inland.

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Jrog 3 hours ago

It's not like they spread biological weapons though. They used (mostly) harmless chemical compounds that had similar distribution dynamics and could be easily tracked by their fluorescence. The chemical used, Zinc-Cadmium sulfide, is harmless on small dose exposure, and was used for the same scope by the US and Canadian governments. They also run tests with biological agents, by using different types of common bacteria to mimic anthrax. Multiple inquiries -both in the USA and UK- confirmed that the experiment were harmless enough and spread enough to pose no risk to public health.

4points

#24

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The CIA funded and organized the overturn of several south and Central American socialist governments.

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Lucifer 4 hours ago

The US also overthrew govts. in Middle East, South East Asia, Africa. And they still do it to this day. Mainly for the control of natural resources.

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#25

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The U.S. Public Hearth “Service” chose not to treat 400 African-American with syphillis in Alabama so they could study the progress of the disease if untreated.

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11points

Rayne OfSalt 26 minutes ago

Worse, they deliberately infected black americans with syphillis to study the disease.

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#26

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Your iPhone is designed to start getting worse as soon as the new models come out.

I remember this being a big deal like 7 or 8 years ago. Someone can fact check me as I'm hazy on the details, but I believe its related to the battery. Every year, the same week that the new iPhone comes out, the latest iOS becomes available for download. The new iOS is not optimized for your current device's battery, and as such the phone compromises performance in order to maintain a similar battery life. Coupled with the normal wear and tear on the battery, your phone will start sucking just so the battery can last a little longer.

srstone71 , Irina Iriser/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

11points

Rayne OfSalt 30 minutes ago

It's not designed to get worse, apple software techs make firmware patches that degrade your phone's performance. Which is actually worse.

1point

#27

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Government Surveillance: Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was conducting mass surveillance on citizens, collecting data from internet communications, phone calls, and other sources.

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#28

Operation Northwoods
I believe it was called, back in the day was WILD.
The US government tried to plan a false flag attack on US soil as justification to officially declare war on Cuba.
They tried to make people look crazy or make us think "the government would never do that to us" then it turned out they actually wanted to do it/became public knowledge.

11points

#29

Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Confirmed decades later by the ex secretary of defense as being entirely false, consequences of the incident were utterly appalling.

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10points

James Doe 30 minutes ago

False claims to justify the US war in Vietnam. "The National Security Agency, an agency of the US Defense Department, had deliberately skewed intelligence to create the impression that an attack had been carried out." [of north Vietnamese military attacking US Navi ships] "The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying U.S. conventional forces to South Vietnam and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

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#30

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The food pyramid was known to be wrong and detrimental to health but there was money to be made selling grain based products.

muskie71 , https://www.usda.gov/ Report

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James Doe 18 minutes ago

I think a huge issue with it is the misconception of what is deemed "bread" (and "pasta"?) in some parts of the world. In Europe and especially Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic,.. Bread is actually really healthy*. In most of rest if the world "bread" is either without nutritional value or basically candy (Toast bread with loads of sugar)

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#31

The CIA has been kidnapping and torturing (“experimenting”) on people ever since it was formed, and is likely still doing so.

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#32

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) That the US Government actually had a Paranomal unit. That movie, "The Men Who Stare at Goats"? It was based on a true story - the US military was actively trying to see if they could find people with skills like stopping the heart of a goat, or dowsing, or psychic spying.

The whole thing pretty much fell apart when it was deemed that the people participating were not very effective (if you have to stare at a goat for hours in order to get it to fall over and die, how are they supposed to make use of it for assassinations?)

But, bottom line, it DID exist. Same with the Germans having a paranormal unit during the 40's. They believed in acquiring the Spear of Destiny because Mr. Mustache believed it would help him win the war, along with other Occult stuff. That's partly what the Wolfenstein games have made popular...

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Owen 3 hours ago

I am stealing that and will now only refer to that ***************** as Mr. Moustache.

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#33

That the Ministry of Information in the UK spread misinformation that eating lots of carrots could improve night vision during WWII. They made this up to confuse the Germans. They had a new radar tech that allowed them to pinpoint German bombers from greater distances than before, and the carrot story was a ruse.

That said, I don't know what's true on the internet these days, so I'm half waiting for the comment that this story in itself was a ruse...

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Adam Jeff 1 hour ago

What's interesting and less well known is that the Germans also had radar, and the British refused to believe it despite plenty of evidence. Essentially both sides developed it independently, and both thought themselves so intellectually superior that the other side couldn't possibly have done the same.

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#34

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The Canadian government actually tried to fry peoples brains with ECT in order to fix their depression, thinking that the wiping of neurons that have a negative emotional event will fix their depression. Instead, people ended up losing their memory, suffered inconsistent, and forgot their name, all while still having depression.

This was in part funded by the CIA in an effort to understand memory alteration. .

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Koala ala ala 4 hours ago

Incontinence?

3points

#35

Look up a phone called ANOM

FBI basically sold prehacked phones to crime organizations.

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#36

The government doesn’t let you accumulate assets when on welfare because they want you easily controlled and always poor.

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Bob Brooce 1 hour ago

Right. Because there's no way it could be explained by moron politicians that think having a reliable car and a few bucks to cover unexpected expenses means you're doing well enough that you don't deserve public assistance.

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#37

The "Got Milk" campaign is a government funded psy-op to help prop up the American dairy industry.

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#38

The fact that major social media platforms use algorithms specifically designed to keep you addicted. They analyze your behavior to show you more content that will keep you scrolling, even if it’s not good for your mental health. It sounds like a conspiracy, but it's a well-documented reality.

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Nils Skirnir 2 hours ago

Eg BoredPanda

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#39

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The CIA fed unreasonable amounts of d***s to people to document the effects and search for new weapons

I can't imagine taking heroic doses of LSD and then getting grilled by government scientists for days.

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Multa Nocte 1 hour ago

D i c k s?

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#40

Almost everything the CIA did in the 60s and 70s.

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Nils Skirnir 2 hours ago

And still does. Except now we have even more agencies in the game

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#41

Free school lunch programs are being pushed in many areas by the large multinational corporations that own the contracts.

Sodexo is a multinational French company worth over 17 billion.

Compass is actually owned by chartwells which is UK based.

I am all for making sure kids eat healthy food and they should not have to pay for it.

But these companies don’t promote the healthy part.

They also do a lot of jail contracts as well.

Next time you hear think of the children look for the company who will provide the items.

Edit: **I am pro free lunch for kids** I am just anti large corporations making money off our government. That is the point some people are not getting.

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GenuineJen 1 hour ago

Pizza was considered a "vegetable" in 2011 thanks to certain guidelines.

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#42

That your phone is listening to you. You talk about wanting a new pair of shoes, and suddenly every ad you see is for sneakers. It feels like a wild conspiracy... but algorithms and voice data collection are definitely a thing. Creepy, but real.

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Nils Skirnir 2 hours ago

Also tracks eyeball time. I.e. if dwell on an image, will start sending ads about that

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#43

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) There are entire caves of cheese owned and operated by the US government.

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Pandarosa 2 hours ago

Yum, government cheese ...

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#44

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) The company that is making the super secure encrypted phone for international criminals is actually a front and is a backdoor to the us government.

Listen to the podcast called search engine (former reply all host pj vojt) to hear the story (sorry for spoiling it. ) “What’s the best phone to do crimes on?” is the name of the episode.

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#45

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) Canada is attempting to increase its population to 100M by 2100 despite not even having enough homes for its current population look up the Century Initiative.

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7points

#46

Tiktok is a Chinese Trojan horse. In the future a lot of damage is going to happen to these young tiktokers when they try to run for political office, or try to work for a federal agency that requires secret clearance. If China sees them as a threat, they'll expose all their tiktok app Intel and all the data they've stolen in the background without the user's knowledge...and yes, I prefer a western company doing that to than a Chinese company....would you install a North Korean app? No? Well China is run exactly like north Korea. Companies answer to 1 person only.

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7points

Sofia 4 hours ago

if I am not wrong the app can download packages and installing without your knowledge

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#47

“What’s Something That Sounds Like A Conspiracy Theory But Is Actually True?” (55 Answers) A main ingredient in the flavor of Coca-cola still only comes from processing cocoa leaves into c*caine. The extract goes to the Coca-cola flavor profile, and the c*caine that is produced as a by-product gets sold to the health industry for medicinal use. There is only one company in the US authorized to do this that has had a special arrangement with the DEA for nearly 100 years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company.

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6points

Annik Perrot 2 hours ago

TIL that cocoa leaves could be processed into à dr*g. Well, chocolate *is* additive/j

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#48

Toss me any conspiracy theory about the government or corporations that doesn’t have to do with cryptids/aliens and I will generally agree with it at this point. I think you need to have a borderline mental handicap to trust the government or any corporation.

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#49

Look up the MKUltra project.

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#50

That the fbi are making all these damn posts to see what people believe .

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6points

#51

In the Tuskegee experiment, hundreds of African American men were purposely selected, deceived and intentionally given fake syphilis treatments. 102 of them died.

5points

#52

The Black Sox Scandal was a major sports controversy that rocked the baseball world in 1919. It involved members of the Chicago White Sox, one of the best teams in the League at the time, who were accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The scandal involved eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, who allegedly accepted bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose games.

At first, many people thought the scandal was just a conspiracy theory as the players denied any wrongdoing, The team was arguably in the top position, some of the accused were insanely popular, and some fans believed that the accusations were just a way to tarnish the team's reputation. However, an investigation uncovered evidence of a complex scheme involving gamblers, team owners, and players. The investigation revealed that the players had definitely accepted bribes The tune of a couple million today.

I'm not a huge sports fan at all but I am a history not and this was one of the most significant scandals in sports history and it changed a lot of things for the entire sport including getting a commissioner of baseball. Even though they were technically declared criminally innocent, all eight players involved were all banned for life and they will never be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame despite repeated attempts to do so over the decades.

4points

Rayne OfSalt 22 minutes ago

I can still remember when sports gambling was illegal, and the subject of a lot of cop action movies/tv shows.

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#53

Legolas only ever says five words to Frodo: "And you have my bow.".

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#54

10x more people died from supply chain/inflation jolts in countries that suffer extreme starvation (not merely hunger) because of economic consequences of covid than covid itself even if you use the highest estimated covid deaths.

3points

#55

That most reddit mods are vindictive adult babies that shouldn't have any sort of 'power' whatsoever. They essentially slowly turn their subreddits into hugboxes due to social corruption and by virtue of being part of a niche community. Im not saying all, but I've definitely felt communities cave in on themselves as a result. Especially in esoteric nerd communities.

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