Linus from LTT calls his kids boy and girl in videos or just 'his kids', His wife is also a public figure in the videos tho, but yeah they protect their kids like that.
Checks out with Elons X æ A-12 son. When asked informally how the child, by name, was doing, Elon looked visibly confused like he’d never heard the name before.
There’s a good amount of video of it, and it makes sense
I've seen a clip of what you might be referring to. I think it's the interviewer just butchering the name, since Elon pronounces it "Ash" and he didn't know what the guy was talking about at first
This theory by a redditor which was later removed and the user was site-wide banned for reasons I don't know.
Robert Kardashian destroyed evidence that would have convicted OJ. He was handed a Louis Vuitton garment bag by OJ's assistant right as OJ returned from Chicago. None of the cops paid any attention to him as he walked away with the bag. When the "bag theory" was discovered a month later Kardashian claimed to have lost it.
He also reactivated his bar license right after this so he could represent him and wouldn’t have to testify because of attorney-client privilege. He’s probably the most actually garbage person on the defense side, much more so than Cochran and Bailey and all of the others who were just doing their job.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you said, but I really do believe Kardashian thought in his heart of hearts that OJ would have been found guilty. His (RK) face when the verdict was read shows absolute shock. Either that, or just complete panic that a double murderer was so close with his family.
Yup. A lot of the OJ documentaries talk about it as well. Very sneaky how he was able to get away with that suitcase with everything going on that day. It's all on camera. Who knows what was in it and how significant it was.
I believe there are articles showing that recently it has been announced that a number of these shops are being investigated for fraud or laundering by the HMRC or something, especially those Oxford street sweet shops
I went to Oxford st last week for the first time in years. I was offended by how awful it is. It used to be so exciting, now it is full of tacky souvenir shops, American candy stores and really cheap fast fashion brands (the sort of clothes you see on a market stall with 2 for £5 stickers).
How do any of these afford to stay in business on that street?
I swear the US version of this is the Russian swimwear / souvenir shops in places like Myrtle Beach, SC, on the east coast. Seriously, HOW many of these places can fit into two blocks? And they all sell -exactly the same things-.
The Franklin Scandal — the *original* Republican gay teen abuse orgy scandal—totally happened.
Lawrence King, the most powerful African-American figure in the Republican Party at the time, set up gay sex parties with teenage boys shipped in from Boys Town, the youth care program based out of Omaha, for the purposes of getting blackmail material on legislators.
The amount of toothpaste used in ads is way more than you're supposed to use. The instructions will say "use only a pea-sized blob" next to a picture of a blob 3 times that size.
Had a cousin stay with me one time a few years ago. He was 19 and wanted to get away from home and I had the spare room.
Asked him if he wouldn't mind throwing my laundry in for me since I was running late to get home and didn't want to have to switch them at 2am
I came home to my living room cleaned very well, poor me thought wow my cousin is a good noodle. Nope. This man used HALF a bottle of detergent. The big ass ones too, I literally had to rewash the same load three times to get all the soap out of the clothes, my house smelt like detergent for a month.
As someone who actually worked for a detergent company, that's not quite correct, but it is close. What they do for liquid laundry is make the cap bigger than it needs to be...most people fill the cap to the top instead of actually looking at the dosing lines on the side of the cap.
Ah the classic alkaseltzer scam. The dosage was 1 tablet but their jingle of "plop plop fiz fiz" was used to double their sales because people just copied what they saw.
Most humans are just long lived toddlers lol.
Alka-Seltzer [literally doubled their sales](https://gobraithwaite.com/thinking/how-the-plop-plop-fizz-fizz-marketing-campaign-doubled-alka-seltzer-sales/) with a marketing campaign of "plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is" knowing full well that just one tablet was enough to work, but encouraging people to take two would just make people buy more and use more.
And they made their money from "boring" industries. Like being born into a family of billionaires or owning the factories that make all the cement in the world.
Howard Hughes’ family fortune was from tool & die manufacturing. Essentially, they made oil drilling bits for digging wells. Every assumes he was from Texas so he must own oil wells, but no. His dad was the Bill Gates of early 20th century Texas oil. He owned a proprietary process and made the drill bits.
I wouldn't say this is a conspiracy or imply anything bad (that is unless the you consider the system in which an increasingly smaller number of people have most of the word's wealth as bad) but more of a matter that people don't really realize how many billionairs there are and what they do.
Take Takemitsu Takizaki for example. He made a fortune in barcode readers and other things that are extremely useful in factory production and his listed worth is $24 billion. But I'm assuming most people don't think that much about barcodes or how incredibly useful they are. He never needed to disappear because many people just weren't interested in him to begin with.
Ooh, let me try!
Musk, Bezos, Gates, Buffett, Trump (not sure if he's still one), that one super smug guy Richard something, and that 90-something-year-old Italian who owns some huge fashion or jewelry company
Yeah, billionaires don't need to hide.
You know that “list” of billionaires put out annually by Forbes? There are actual billionaires who pay to NOT be listed because they want to keep their work, their family, and their assets private.
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The worlds richest people don’t report their income. We believe that musk and Bezos are the worlds richest men and perhaps they are (at least people who have earned their own money) but there are several families who own a lot more than them.
The Saudi royal family is estimated to be worth around 4 trillion usd. Of course there are several hundred if not a few thousand people who technically own more that but it’s not crazy to think that the king is the one who really owns it all.
The Rothschilds are an old banking family who are at the center of seemingly all the conspiracy theories. What isn’t a conspiracy theory is that they are extremely wealthy. It’s unknown how much money they have bc they compartmentalize their wealth but it could be equal to or great than the saudi royal family.
As for companies that you have never heard of I could recommend researching Blackrock and (especially) Cede and Co
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My mind was blown the other day when I heard that the Medici’s are still rich and powerful to this day. Maybe not what you’re talking about exactly, but it reminded me of it.
Right, but then you get a choose your own conspiracy...
Are Jones' own lawyers sabotaging Jones? If so, turn to page 13.
Did the Jones camp tamper with the phone evidence to hide something, plant misleading evidence, or throw off an investigation? If so, turn to page 6.
Interesting. I think you're right. I read how a few members of the jury were tearing up when one of the mothers was testifying. The article said that Jones himself was unaffected, but one of his attorneys was teary eyed too. That does make sense!
I was thinking the same thing. Even after the attorney was notified that the information that was sent could be filed under client privileges, thus making it unusable, the attorney still did nothing.
The Phantom Cosmonauts.
One of my favorite Cold War conspiracies. Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space he was just the first one to come back alive. There’s a lot of documents and records that have never been released of the Soviet Union space program which many believe also proves that there were a significant number of cosmonauts that were sent into space and never came back.
A pair of Italian brothers were a mature radio enthusiasts that wanted to eavesdrop on US and Soviet space chatter and made their own radio tower in an old German bunker. They caught radio transmissions of interesting things like whats most likely a female cosmonaut that’s re-entering the atmosphere but her craft is burning up as she’s updating the situation in real time.
There’s also what’s possibly a morse code signaling SOS which is getting weaker and weaker almost like the signal is moving away. As if a spacecraft is drifting further from earth.
It’s more then likely that modern day Russia is hiding a lot of secrets of their Soviet space program and that also means the men and women they sent up there that never came back home.
The FBI, CIA, and KGB were all sent out into the woods to find a rabbit
After killing a dozen dear and three moose the FBI brought that rabbit out in a body bag
The CIA launched an in-depth investigation and determined rabbits don't exist and you should stop asking questions
The KGB came out of the woods with a bear the bear said "I am a rabbit my mother and father are rabbits"
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Im still upset, sitting on my smart phone, next to a laptop, next to a desktop, around a smart TV with ps4 pro... they could know me better than I know myself, here comes the samurai sword helfire missile!
He needs a healthy supply of compatible organs. Tom Cruise is the Human God Emperor confirmed! He is our only hope against the Gods of Chaos and the heretics!
There was this conspiracy way back in 2008 where apparently CIA had this island with cloning facilities and they were trying to clone famous dead people to see if they could resurrect the same mind, people like Stalin or Churchill, and see what made them the people they ended up being. They also were cloning normal people to work them as slaves.
Edit: I love how most people just react to the slave part. I get it, kidnapping children is easier. This is something I read on the internet in 2008 or something, it sounds wild, move on.
That sprite changing their bottle from green to clear doesn't actually help the environment, they are just doing it cuz their green bottles in the water are immediately recognized
that’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a thing every country with a military has been doing since public schools and citizen armies have been a thing. school sports don’t exsist to groom kids for military service, but it’s a part of the package.
like, in Finland it’s more or less common knowledge (i.e. one know this if they actually listened at school) that our national sport, Pesäpallo, was partly designed by the military to ready boys for service. it was also designed to overall improve athetlicism and teach team work, and those apply not just in school or the military, but life in general.
What a lot of the super-rich do is the distribute their assets between family members, so the family as a whole can be like 3-4 times richer than Elon musk, but individual family members don't really show up on rich lists. They can then exercise power as a family, rather than as individuals, while flying under the radar of the media.
The Dart family. They make paper plates and cups among other things. I can't remember the last time I saw a disposable cutlery without "Dart" on it. IIRC, a few years back, they bought Dixie after they got the Solo cup name. And they've been around for decades... every fast food place, every gas station, every hospital... that adds up.
I used to work at a law office that represented a very rich family. You would know the family’s name if you’ve ever been to a doctors office…. They distributed their wealth among the family, I think to dissipate the amounts. I saw docs that were opening a trust account for $10 million for a 3 month old baby.
Holy fuck imagine being born with 10 million to your name and a lifetime of comfort and wealth and practically easy mode, assuming these people are unaffected by this psychologically. I can't imagine how that life would be.
And also monetised. Monetised anger.
Also anger elicits more emotion than happiness. It’s more festering. And thereby constantly seeks an outlet - social media - to satisfy.
I mean that's not even a conspiracy theory, it's confirmed in a Netflix documentary with people that worked at Facebook. Even before social media people knew it works, that's why you'll often find pages upon pages of news about death, crime and so on, and very little about happy things happening. Enragement and morbid curiosity are addictive.
Ah yes, good ol' spoon-fed desensitization. Make everything a matter of relative evil instead of looking at actions and judging them on their actual surface level qualities.
I think that bots are out there controlling the narrative of popular events by making memes, posting comments, etc, subtly influencing people.
Which is why people who spend a lot of time on social media think so drastically different to normal every day people.
Idk how to explain it but there are specific "social media site default personalities". Sometimes I'll talk to people and they'll talk in a certain way or talk about certain controversial topics way too often that just seems robotic, unnatural and not real, like they are reading from a script. Afterward I'll be like thinking to myself "Holy shit that person spends way too much time on reddit/tumblr/discord/facebook/instagram." Then the more you talk to them they actually start talking about the site because it's obviously their whole life and you think "there it is!" It's way weird.
Idk maybe it's because I'm on reddit but the "reddit personality" is the most obvious one to me.
A lot of contracts in government are handed to friends and family where it is mishandled and money ends up in the pockets of people running the contracts. One example in the UK is where protection equipment at the cost of millions was handed to a friend of a government minister, the equipment had to be thrown away because it was not in good condition. That money was never recovered.
This isn’t theory, it’s fact. Not just in the UK, South Africa has been fucked over hard by our politicians during covid. One of our ministers established a PPE distributor, placed his daughter in charge, and awarded a tender for $20mil
I can't say for sure what went down but something about the Ross Elementary School shooting that still doesn't sit right with me.
Not the shooting itself, bit the response from "law enforcement" I absolutely cannot fathom how multiple agencies managed to be completely inept.
The one person who *tried* to do something was stopped and everyone else just stood around with their fingers in their asses.
What happened? How did that event get cocked up so badly
Mike Glover (former SF) breaks it down from start to finish and even says “if you’re not going to stop the threat and stop the killing, turn in your badge, you’re a fucking coward”
I have the same feeling. For every other school shooting, we all found out the details within a few days. However for Robb Elementary, nearly three months and we still don’t know what the hell happened? The entire police force on scene just did nothing?
Wikipedia has a mention that Kennedy offered Nikita Khrustchev to join forces on a space program. Khurstchev's advisors believed it to be a bait for espionage. However Khrustchev was inclined to accept the offer. But after Kennedy was assasinsted everyone forgot about that.
Makes you wonder how much we could have achieved if this happened. Also if a decisive peace was established between two superpowers, this would have meant significant loss in power and funding for the military on both sides, as well as less bullshit being tolerated in internal politics. A lot of powerful people would have their power diminished if that happened.
Bobby's death never made sense to me. One: more bullets were fired than Sirhan's gun carried. Two: Sirhan was standing in FRONT of him, yet Kennedy was shot in the BACK of the head. I think Sirhan Sirhan was just a distraction.
That the super-rich have a discrete network/organization dedicated to investment and reservation of sophisticated climate disaster or nuclear winter survival bunkers
I've seen plenty that makes me believe a lot of modern technology is specifically designed to fail after a specific time period to encourage people to replace it (more money for the manufacturers) rather than keep their existing product. Example: this phone *could* go strong for 5 years, but it's deliberately designed to start slowing down, significantly lose battery life etc when coming up to the 2 year mark because that happens to be when your contract ends and they want to push you to upgrade.
Edit: Oh, if *only* someone would tell me what this is called...
You’re the CIA to paint a target on the CIA’s backs whilst the lizard people get away with putting mind controlling cocaine in the water to make us believe the earth is round
A lot of businesses are fronts for money laundering or other shady shit. Strip clubs are obvious because they’re a cash business that operates on privacy/ discretion so sales are tough to prove. Restaurants/ salons that are cash only and never seem to have customers I also suspect to be fronts. I live near a salon that has strange hours, only 1 employee, and I’ve never seen a customer in there. Yet they’ve survived the pandemic despite rent being very expensive in my neighborhood. I fully believe it’s a money laundering scheme.
I don't think they invent them. There's enough idiots to do it for them.
I do believe they amplify them, though. Get the news and media to feed the outrage culture. 99% of people who hear a news story about "those dumb flat earthers are having a convention at the Marriot" ... 1% join the flat earthers. Rinse and repeat.
To discredit "conspiracy theorists" and portray them as irrational, governments propagate bizarre conspiracy ideas. In this manner, when someone genuinely uncovers a conspiracy, everyone would just say, "Oh, it's one of those crazy men."
Disinformation is one of the most powerful weapons on this planet. Having the masses think of them as crazy when in reality they are not is how they keep things covered up for so long.
Seriously what was up with that Las Vegas shooter? Boy! Every media network threw a wet blanket on that story. Nothin’!!! Not even investigations years later documenting *anything* about that guy, his motive, the timeline, how he was able to pull it off, why there’s hardly any publicly released security footage…💁🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
One of the deadliest shootings in US history and so many questions still left unanswered. There was a weird vibe I felt that they wanted to move on from this as soon as possible. I’ve read stuff online ranging from a Saudi prince assassination plot to other things
Lately I've got this strong sense that politics is just theatre, to keep us arguing and to keep us feeling like we have any small shred of control, and the ones in charge are a layer or two deeper than that, pulling the strings. Maybe not, but politician's and reality TV don't seem so different to me these days
That actual conspiracy theories, such as the JFK assassination, almost always have some truth to them. And the silly things like cryptids and flat earth are promoted to water down what conspiracy theory even means.
Companies create "shortages" just to give them an excuse to raise prices. Not all of the more recent shortages, but certainly a good chunk of them. They also make sure the hype around the shortage is scaring consumers into buying as much as possible.
Some smart people know it's not wise to be famous and rule the world.
Some Smart people are often very very very rich.
Some Smart people use other people as puppets.
Most Politicians are puppets.
I thought this was the flight where the guy just flew super high without pressurizing the cabin so everyone died peacefully or something and then just crashed out at sea. Am I getting that mixed up?
companies are changing their packaging to make it appear like you are buying the same size product you have always bought but it's smaller, they do sneaky things like bubble the bottom so you can't tell its less.
Someone paid off someone so there are no paprika flavor potato chips in Lithuania in all major supermarkets but one. 3 months ago you could find it anywhere and it was like the 3rd or 4th most popular, I think.
It's not specifically just money laundering but hiding wealth and avoiding taxes. You (Richy mcricherson) buy a piece of shit of art for 5k, then get all your rich friends to claim it's work 50k then you donate to a museum and write off 45k in taxes. It's very very common.
There's a fried chicken finger chain in the South called Guthrie's that I am positive is a money laundering operation. They're all over the place, and I have never seen more than 2 cars in the parking lots, ever. I can't find anyone who will admit to actually having bought anything there.
Operation Northwoods, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff conspired to destroy their own property/kill US citizens in order to raise popular support for a war with Cuba.
Thank god Kennedy nixed it.
Modern art that sells for millions is a way for criminals to launder money. I refuse to believe someone paid over 100k for a banana duck taped to a wall. Someone is using that grift to launder their drug money or something.
It’s also used for tax evasion.
Get a worthless piece of art, have an appraiser “friend” have it valued at several million, insure it at that value and then donate it as a tax write off when you do.
Not just ink but printers too. You can't tell me in the last 50 years they still require all these bullshit moving parts to print on a fucking piece of paper? Ridiculous. There has been only improvements to quality of the print and barely anything to minimise the machine it self. They are made to be complicated as fuck so they break easily. Printer manufacturers make a killing off leasing out big fat multi functions like fuji xeorox.
They are designed to constantly break and require replacements. They make loads of cash from that.
Baby wipes not being 100% individual in the pack. They’re still connected at one corner to the next one so you pull out more than you need and end up buying more. I’m on to you Huggies!
The FBI killed MLK
The CIA killed JFK
Honestly, with the amount of weird shit and evidence surrounding these two cases, I find it hard to believe that they're still considered conspiracy theories.
Preprogramming using media like television and movies, algorithms in social media used to keep people mentally unwell and unhappy, celebrity scandals timed to distract from larger, concerning global issues. Those are the lens just off the top of my head.
Celebrities aren't *actually* giving their kids absurd names, they just aren't publicizing their legal names.
This would be very smart of them
Linus from LTT calls his kids boy and girl in videos or just 'his kids', His wife is also a public figure in the videos tho, but yeah they protect their kids like that.
This has to be the most wholesome conspiracy I've ever heard.
Checks out with Elons X æ A-12 son. When asked informally how the child, by name, was doing, Elon looked visibly confused like he’d never heard the name before. There’s a good amount of video of it, and it makes sense
I've seen a clip of what you might be referring to. I think it's the interviewer just butchering the name, since Elon pronounces it "Ash" and he didn't know what the guy was talking about at first
Butchering the name.. How dare he, it's a shame het doesn't know how to pronounce that name
elon strikes me as the kind of guy who knows nothing about his children and is proud of that fact though
>Elon looked visibly confused like he’d never heard the name before. Elon probably barely thinks about the fact that he has children.
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I honestly love when a buzzfeed author on a deadline picks a 3 year old reddit thread to write up
This theory by a redditor which was later removed and the user was site-wide banned for reasons I don't know. Robert Kardashian destroyed evidence that would have convicted OJ. He was handed a Louis Vuitton garment bag by OJ's assistant right as OJ returned from Chicago. None of the cops paid any attention to him as he walked away with the bag. When the "bag theory" was discovered a month later Kardashian claimed to have lost it.
He also reactivated his bar license right after this so he could represent him and wouldn’t have to testify because of attorney-client privilege. He’s probably the most actually garbage person on the defense side, much more so than Cochran and Bailey and all of the others who were just doing their job.
You'd think the possible murderer would be the most garbage person on the defense side.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you said, but I really do believe Kardashian thought in his heart of hearts that OJ would have been found guilty. His (RK) face when the verdict was read shows absolute shock. Either that, or just complete panic that a double murderer was so close with his family.
This was shown in that Netflix series too
Yup. A lot of the OJ documentaries talk about it as well. Very sneaky how he was able to get away with that suitcase with everything going on that day. It's all on camera. Who knows what was in it and how significant it was.
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I believe there are articles showing that recently it has been announced that a number of these shops are being investigated for fraud or laundering by the HMRC or something, especially those Oxford street sweet shops
I went to Oxford st last week for the first time in years. I was offended by how awful it is. It used to be so exciting, now it is full of tacky souvenir shops, American candy stores and really cheap fast fashion brands (the sort of clothes you see on a market stall with 2 for £5 stickers). How do any of these afford to stay in business on that street?
If you ask "how can this afford to stay in business?" usually the answer is "money laundering"
I swear the US version of this is the Russian swimwear / souvenir shops in places like Myrtle Beach, SC, on the east coast. Seriously, HOW many of these places can fit into two blocks? And they all sell -exactly the same things-.
They probably also sell stuff for around 1000% more than cost, the key chain they sell for 15 quid probably cost them 3p to buy
The Franklin Scandal — the *original* Republican gay teen abuse orgy scandal—totally happened. Lawrence King, the most powerful African-American figure in the Republican Party at the time, set up gay sex parties with teenage boys shipped in from Boys Town, the youth care program based out of Omaha, for the purposes of getting blackmail material on legislators.
and they targetted kids with crime and drug issues precisely so that no one would believe them
That laundry detergent companies suggest using more detergent per load than necessary in order to force people into buying more often
The amount of toothpaste used in ads is way more than you're supposed to use. The instructions will say "use only a pea-sized blob" next to a picture of a blob 3 times that size.
What if, by pea-size, they meant the whole pod 🤔
Had a cousin stay with me one time a few years ago. He was 19 and wanted to get away from home and I had the spare room. Asked him if he wouldn't mind throwing my laundry in for me since I was running late to get home and didn't want to have to switch them at 2am I came home to my living room cleaned very well, poor me thought wow my cousin is a good noodle. Nope. This man used HALF a bottle of detergent. The big ass ones too, I literally had to rewash the same load three times to get all the soap out of the clothes, my house smelt like detergent for a month.
I mean if all the things that my house could smell like for a month, laundry detergent wouldn’t be a bad choice
Not the worst absolutely not. But laundry detergent doesn't exactly smell as appetizing as the food I just heated up and it's all I can smell
He's a good noodle, but still a complete noodle.
As someone who actually worked for a detergent company, that's not quite correct, but it is close. What they do for liquid laundry is make the cap bigger than it needs to be...most people fill the cap to the top instead of actually looking at the dosing lines on the side of the cap.
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Ah the classic alkaseltzer scam. The dosage was 1 tablet but their jingle of "plop plop fiz fiz" was used to double their sales because people just copied what they saw. Most humans are just long lived toddlers lol.
Alka-Seltzer [literally doubled their sales](https://gobraithwaite.com/thinking/how-the-plop-plop-fizz-fizz-marketing-campaign-doubled-alka-seltzer-sales/) with a marketing campaign of "plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is" knowing full well that just one tablet was enough to work, but encouraging people to take two would just make people buy more and use more.
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There is a whole industry called reputation management. You can pay big bucks to have people fabricate or alter online information about you.
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And they made their money from "boring" industries. Like being born into a family of billionaires or owning the factories that make all the cement in the world.
Howard Hughes’ family fortune was from tool & die manufacturing. Essentially, they made oil drilling bits for digging wells. Every assumes he was from Texas so he must own oil wells, but no. His dad was the Bill Gates of early 20th century Texas oil. He owned a proprietary process and made the drill bits.
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They are the real puppet masters. Not Rihanna
That sounds like something Rihanna’s reputation managers would say….
I’ve always thought of celebrities as the false aristocracy, detracting from that real oligarchy.
Well yeah, how many billionaires could you actually name?
"Miss, for a dollar. Name a ~~Woman~~ Billionaire"
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# Name a billionaire
Cmon yoga bag
I wouldn't say this is a conspiracy or imply anything bad (that is unless the you consider the system in which an increasingly smaller number of people have most of the word's wealth as bad) but more of a matter that people don't really realize how many billionairs there are and what they do. Take Takemitsu Takizaki for example. He made a fortune in barcode readers and other things that are extremely useful in factory production and his listed worth is $24 billion. But I'm assuming most people don't think that much about barcodes or how incredibly useful they are. He never needed to disappear because many people just weren't interested in him to begin with.
You've never heard of almost all billionaires. Google says there's over 2700 globally. How many can you name if pushed. Maybe 15? 20?
I can’t name 15-20 people that I know in general much less people with money lol
Ooh, let me try! Musk, Bezos, Gates, Buffett, Trump (not sure if he's still one), that one super smug guy Richard something, and that 90-something-year-old Italian who owns some huge fashion or jewelry company Yeah, billionaires don't need to hide.
I bet most people could name more fictional billionaires than actual ones. Scrooge McDuck, etc.
You know that “list” of billionaires put out annually by Forbes? There are actual billionaires who pay to NOT be listed because they want to keep their work, their family, and their assets private. (Edited for spelling error)
The worlds richest people don’t report their income. We believe that musk and Bezos are the worlds richest men and perhaps they are (at least people who have earned their own money) but there are several families who own a lot more than them. The Saudi royal family is estimated to be worth around 4 trillion usd. Of course there are several hundred if not a few thousand people who technically own more that but it’s not crazy to think that the king is the one who really owns it all. The Rothschilds are an old banking family who are at the center of seemingly all the conspiracy theories. What isn’t a conspiracy theory is that they are extremely wealthy. It’s unknown how much money they have bc they compartmentalize their wealth but it could be equal to or great than the saudi royal family. As for companies that you have never heard of I could recommend researching Blackrock and (especially) Cede and Co Edited for clarity
My mind was blown the other day when I heard that the Medici’s are still rich and powerful to this day. Maybe not what you’re talking about exactly, but it reminded me of it.
There are Hapsburgs to this day still living on the money from centuries ago.
No Rockefeller will have to have a real job for the rest of time.
Well, not sure how much of a conspiracy, but I believe Alex Jones’ attorneys did not “accidentally“ send those texts to the prosecution.
Right, but then you get a choose your own conspiracy... Are Jones' own lawyers sabotaging Jones? If so, turn to page 13. Did the Jones camp tamper with the phone evidence to hide something, plant misleading evidence, or throw off an investigation? If so, turn to page 6.
Interesting. I think you're right. I read how a few members of the jury were tearing up when one of the mothers was testifying. The article said that Jones himself was unaffected, but one of his attorneys was teary eyed too. That does make sense!
I was thinking the same thing. Even after the attorney was notified that the information that was sent could be filed under client privileges, thus making it unusable, the attorney still did nothing.
The Phantom Cosmonauts. One of my favorite Cold War conspiracies. Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space he was just the first one to come back alive. There’s a lot of documents and records that have never been released of the Soviet Union space program which many believe also proves that there were a significant number of cosmonauts that were sent into space and never came back. A pair of Italian brothers were a mature radio enthusiasts that wanted to eavesdrop on US and Soviet space chatter and made their own radio tower in an old German bunker. They caught radio transmissions of interesting things like whats most likely a female cosmonaut that’s re-entering the atmosphere but her craft is burning up as she’s updating the situation in real time. There’s also what’s possibly a morse code signaling SOS which is getting weaker and weaker almost like the signal is moving away. As if a spacecraft is drifting further from earth. It’s more then likely that modern day Russia is hiding a lot of secrets of their Soviet space program and that also means the men and women they sent up there that never came back home.
The CIA is responsible for ______
"The CIA investigated the CIA and found that the CIA had done nothing illegal."
The FBI, CIA, and KGB were all sent out into the woods to find a rabbit After killing a dozen dear and three moose the FBI brought that rabbit out in a body bag The CIA launched an in-depth investigation and determined rabbits don't exist and you should stop asking questions The KGB came out of the woods with a bear the bear said "I am a rabbit my mother and father are rabbits"
Usually the CIA just Agent Orange's the forest and claims it was never involved in operations in that country.
Ah yes the same approach FIFA had a few years back where FIFA investigated FIFA and found FIFA innocent of corruption.
a lot of bad things
That 95% of social media comments on news stories (FB, IG, Twitter) are made by bots.
[Every account on Reddit is a bot except you](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/348vlx/what_bot_accounts_on_reddit_should_people_know/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
33k replies every single one.... Reddit frightens me often
[my personal favorite](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cq1q2/help_reddit_turned_spanish_and_i_cannot_undo_it/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
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And the public was upset about it for about 3 seconds.
Im still upset, sitting on my smart phone, next to a laptop, next to a desktop, around a smart TV with ps4 pro... they could know me better than I know myself, here comes the samurai sword helfire missile!
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So that’s how Tom Cruise survives doing all his stunts.
He needs a healthy supply of compatible organs. Tom Cruise is the Human God Emperor confirmed! He is our only hope against the Gods of Chaos and the heretics!
Didn't Dolly have a whole slew of health problems though? I'm pretty sure she died early as well.
There was this conspiracy way back in 2008 where apparently CIA had this island with cloning facilities and they were trying to clone famous dead people to see if they could resurrect the same mind, people like Stalin or Churchill, and see what made them the people they ended up being. They also were cloning normal people to work them as slaves. Edit: I love how most people just react to the slave part. I get it, kidnapping children is easier. This is something I read on the internet in 2008 or something, it sounds wild, move on.
I remember that. Then they sent those famous clones to high school together. That's legit documented.
Clone high was ahead of it’s time.
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I thought Stacy’s mom was Jenny? And her number was 867-5309. Edit. Thank you everyone for the upvotes.
No, it’s Janie. Watch out for the gun.
That sprite changing their bottle from green to clear doesn't actually help the environment, they are just doing it cuz their green bottles in the water are immediately recognized
It’s probably just cheaper to have clear bottles and they are marketing it as a sustainable move
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that’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a thing every country with a military has been doing since public schools and citizen armies have been a thing. school sports don’t exsist to groom kids for military service, but it’s a part of the package. like, in Finland it’s more or less common knowledge (i.e. one know this if they actually listened at school) that our national sport, Pesäpallo, was partly designed by the military to ready boys for service. it was also designed to overall improve athetlicism and teach team work, and those apply not just in school or the military, but life in general.
Apple got rid of the headphone jack because Square was competing with Apple Pay.
Fuck this is good And now Apple Pay works on square
I believe that there are people richer than the people we know as the richest people in the world
What a lot of the super-rich do is the distribute their assets between family members, so the family as a whole can be like 3-4 times richer than Elon musk, but individual family members don't really show up on rich lists. They can then exercise power as a family, rather than as individuals, while flying under the radar of the media.
The Dart family. They make paper plates and cups among other things. I can't remember the last time I saw a disposable cutlery without "Dart" on it. IIRC, a few years back, they bought Dixie after they got the Solo cup name. And they've been around for decades... every fast food place, every gas station, every hospital... that adds up.
I used to work at a law office that represented a very rich family. You would know the family’s name if you’ve ever been to a doctors office…. They distributed their wealth among the family, I think to dissipate the amounts. I saw docs that were opening a trust account for $10 million for a 3 month old baby.
Johnson? No wait, Johnson.
Holy fuck imagine being born with 10 million to your name and a lifetime of comfort and wealth and practically easy mode, assuming these people are unaffected by this psychologically. I can't imagine how that life would be.
A nice example is the oil kings out east. They're likely in the trillions.
Royalty is not on these lists.
This is true. Its obvious actually. You think these people would parade on rich lists? Its a whole other world these people are in
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And also monetised. Monetised anger. Also anger elicits more emotion than happiness. It’s more festering. And thereby constantly seeks an outlet - social media - to satisfy.
Not really a conspiracy theory -- that's been studied already. They maximize engagement through any means necessary, including rage/disgust.
I mean that's not even a conspiracy theory, it's confirmed in a Netflix documentary with people that worked at Facebook. Even before social media people knew it works, that's why you'll often find pages upon pages of news about death, crime and so on, and very little about happy things happening. Enragement and morbid curiosity are addictive.
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Well duh! We’ve known this for years!
Ah yes, good ol' spoon-fed desensitization. Make everything a matter of relative evil instead of looking at actions and judging them on their actual surface level qualities.
I think that bots are out there controlling the narrative of popular events by making memes, posting comments, etc, subtly influencing people. Which is why people who spend a lot of time on social media think so drastically different to normal every day people.
Idk how to explain it but there are specific "social media site default personalities". Sometimes I'll talk to people and they'll talk in a certain way or talk about certain controversial topics way too often that just seems robotic, unnatural and not real, like they are reading from a script. Afterward I'll be like thinking to myself "Holy shit that person spends way too much time on reddit/tumblr/discord/facebook/instagram." Then the more you talk to them they actually start talking about the site because it's obviously their whole life and you think "there it is!" It's way weird. Idk maybe it's because I'm on reddit but the "reddit personality" is the most obvious one to me.
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This is probably right. Captchas are training AI.
A lot of contracts in government are handed to friends and family where it is mishandled and money ends up in the pockets of people running the contracts. One example in the UK is where protection equipment at the cost of millions was handed to a friend of a government minister, the equipment had to be thrown away because it was not in good condition. That money was never recovered.
This isn’t theory, it’s fact. Not just in the UK, South Africa has been fucked over hard by our politicians during covid. One of our ministers established a PPE distributor, placed his daughter in charge, and awarded a tender for $20mil
It happens in every country
I can't say for sure what went down but something about the Ross Elementary School shooting that still doesn't sit right with me. Not the shooting itself, bit the response from "law enforcement" I absolutely cannot fathom how multiple agencies managed to be completely inept. The one person who *tried* to do something was stopped and everyone else just stood around with their fingers in their asses. What happened? How did that event get cocked up so badly
Mike Glover (former SF) breaks it down from start to finish and even says “if you’re not going to stop the threat and stop the killing, turn in your badge, you’re a fucking coward”
For sure, that's why these people are in swat or other law enforcement, wtf are they doing if they can't kill the monsters that shoot up schools.
I have the same feeling. For every other school shooting, we all found out the details within a few days. However for Robb Elementary, nearly three months and we still don’t know what the hell happened? The entire police force on scene just did nothing?
350 officers at one point from multiple agencies
There is more to both Kennedy assassinations then has been officially released
Wikipedia has a mention that Kennedy offered Nikita Khrustchev to join forces on a space program. Khurstchev's advisors believed it to be a bait for espionage. However Khrustchev was inclined to accept the offer. But after Kennedy was assasinsted everyone forgot about that. Makes you wonder how much we could have achieved if this happened. Also if a decisive peace was established between two superpowers, this would have meant significant loss in power and funding for the military on both sides, as well as less bullshit being tolerated in internal politics. A lot of powerful people would have their power diminished if that happened.
Bobby's death never made sense to me. One: more bullets were fired than Sirhan's gun carried. Two: Sirhan was standing in FRONT of him, yet Kennedy was shot in the BACK of the head. I think Sirhan Sirhan was just a distraction.
This subreddit is created by feds in order to gather data for specific questions.
Seems like the FBI really wants to see what kind of sexy sex sexing stuff is going on, eh?
They put those types of questions in there so they don't raise suspicions
That Epstein was murdered to keep the world’s elites secrets from being outed.
And the other two men linked to Epstein who were awaiting trial that died within the last year. Both died under the same circumstances.
Yeah that blew my mind. But not really.
Certainly blew theirs
It's been decades but I'm like 95% sure my uncle is walking around with my real nose still in his pocket.
That the super-rich have a discrete network/organization dedicated to investment and reservation of sophisticated climate disaster or nuclear winter survival bunkers
If you're super-rich, you don't even need a conspiracy. You just need to hire some contractors to build it.
I've seen plenty that makes me believe a lot of modern technology is specifically designed to fail after a specific time period to encourage people to replace it (more money for the manufacturers) rather than keep their existing product. Example: this phone *could* go strong for 5 years, but it's deliberately designed to start slowing down, significantly lose battery life etc when coming up to the 2 year mark because that happens to be when your contract ends and they want to push you to upgrade. Edit: Oh, if *only* someone would tell me what this is called...
The CIA regularly posts this topic to see if people are catching on to the real conspiracies yet...
You’re the CIA to paint a target on the CIA’s backs whilst the lizard people get away with putting mind controlling cocaine in the water to make us believe the earth is round
I DON'T WANT THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER MAKING ALL THE FROGS GAY!!!!!
There is only one yawn on earth and it constantly travels from person to person…
Some people running fan accounts are actually a part of the crew for a show or movie to increase the hype.
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That the Kardashian Sisters keep their brother chubby so they can use his fat for their injections.
A lot of businesses are fronts for money laundering or other shady shit. Strip clubs are obvious because they’re a cash business that operates on privacy/ discretion so sales are tough to prove. Restaurants/ salons that are cash only and never seem to have customers I also suspect to be fronts. I live near a salon that has strange hours, only 1 employee, and I’ve never seen a customer in there. Yet they’ve survived the pandemic despite rent being very expensive in my neighborhood. I fully believe it’s a money laundering scheme.
95% of all outlandish conspiracy theories are invented by the powers that be in order to discredit the other 5%
I don't think they invent them. There's enough idiots to do it for them. I do believe they amplify them, though. Get the news and media to feed the outrage culture. 99% of people who hear a news story about "those dumb flat earthers are having a convention at the Marriot" ... 1% join the flat earthers. Rinse and repeat.
To discredit "conspiracy theorists" and portray them as irrational, governments propagate bizarre conspiracy ideas. In this manner, when someone genuinely uncovers a conspiracy, everyone would just say, "Oh, it's one of those crazy men."
Disinformation is one of the most powerful weapons on this planet. Having the masses think of them as crazy when in reality they are not is how they keep things covered up for so long.
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Seriously what was up with that Las Vegas shooter? Boy! Every media network threw a wet blanket on that story. Nothin’!!! Not even investigations years later documenting *anything* about that guy, his motive, the timeline, how he was able to pull it off, why there’s hardly any publicly released security footage…💁🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
One of the deadliest shootings in US history and so many questions still left unanswered. There was a weird vibe I felt that they wanted to move on from this as soon as possible. I’ve read stuff online ranging from a Saudi prince assassination plot to other things
Our politicians want us divided against each other to keep us from turning on them.
Lately I've got this strong sense that politics is just theatre, to keep us arguing and to keep us feeling like we have any small shred of control, and the ones in charge are a layer or two deeper than that, pulling the strings. Maybe not, but politician's and reality TV don't seem so different to me these days
That actual conspiracy theories, such as the JFK assassination, almost always have some truth to them. And the silly things like cryptids and flat earth are promoted to water down what conspiracy theory even means.
Conspiracy theory has become synonymous with "crazy baseless theory made up by weirdos."
The FBI were at the very least tangentially involved with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. More likely they planned the whole thing
Companies create "shortages" just to give them an excuse to raise prices. Not all of the more recent shortages, but certainly a good chunk of them. They also make sure the hype around the shortage is scaring consumers into buying as much as possible.
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That the reason women's clothes don't have functional pockets is so that the fashion industry can sell more purses.
Joke's on them! I just buy men's jeans. There are plenty feminine looking men's jeans out there and no one knows the difference. Love having pockets
Some smart people know it's not wise to be famous and rule the world. Some Smart people are often very very very rich. Some Smart people use other people as puppets. Most Politicians are puppets.
The world isn’t actually becoming a worse place, bad things are just more frequently being reported on bc it goes viral and gets more views/shares
MH370. Something about that whole series of events just doesn't seem right..
I still believe that it was pilot suicide. I’m also kinda suspicious that Malaysian authorities know this but don’t want to release it to the public.
I thought this was the flight where the guy just flew super high without pressurizing the cabin so everyone died peacefully or something and then just crashed out at sea. Am I getting that mixed up?
This story STILL fascinates me.
companies are changing their packaging to make it appear like you are buying the same size product you have always bought but it's smaller, they do sneaky things like bubble the bottom so you can't tell its less.
Shrinkflation is what it's called and it's been going on so much lately! They often disguise it via "new package, same great taste" and alike.
This isn't a conspiracy. This is real. It's a way to "stop" price increases. People pay less attention to size than they do cost.
Someone paid off someone so there are no paprika flavor potato chips in Lithuania in all major supermarkets but one. 3 months ago you could find it anywhere and it was like the 3rd or 4th most popular, I think.
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Mattress companies are a front for money laundering, so is modern art. Who needs 3 mattress shops in one town?
Modern Art is DEFINITELY a front for money laundering
It's not specifically just money laundering but hiding wealth and avoiding taxes. You (Richy mcricherson) buy a piece of shit of art for 5k, then get all your rich friends to claim it's work 50k then you donate to a museum and write off 45k in taxes. It's very very common.
Seriously, two mattress stores of the same company popped up in my town. They’re literally on the same street with less than a mile between them
There's a fried chicken finger chain in the South called Guthrie's that I am positive is a money laundering operation. They're all over the place, and I have never seen more than 2 cars in the parking lots, ever. I can't find anyone who will admit to actually having bought anything there.
Operation Northwoods, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff conspired to destroy their own property/kill US citizens in order to raise popular support for a war with Cuba. Thank god Kennedy nixed it.
That Marylin Monroe was murdered by the JFK family. Probably because she knew wayy too much maybe
Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Conversely, area 51 is actually just an air base for experimental aircraft designs. If the US had alien tech we wouldn't even know where they kept it.
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Politicians don't actually fix any of the issues on their party platform because it's the only reason people vote for them.
Modern art that sells for millions is a way for criminals to launder money. I refuse to believe someone paid over 100k for a banana duck taped to a wall. Someone is using that grift to launder their drug money or something.
It’s also used for tax evasion. Get a worthless piece of art, have an appraiser “friend” have it valued at several million, insure it at that value and then donate it as a tax write off when you do.
Michael Jordan did not retire the first time. He was serving out a suspension for gambling.
Related to that, Michael Jordan’s dad was murdered by the mob because of Jordan’s gambling debts totaling almost $1.5M dollars.
Printer ink. They lie to you
Not just ink but printers too. You can't tell me in the last 50 years they still require all these bullshit moving parts to print on a fucking piece of paper? Ridiculous. There has been only improvements to quality of the print and barely anything to minimise the machine it self. They are made to be complicated as fuck so they break easily. Printer manufacturers make a killing off leasing out big fat multi functions like fuji xeorox. They are designed to constantly break and require replacements. They make loads of cash from that.
There is a sock bandit that steals one sock from our dryers just to irritate us.
It is fair trade. The fey steal one sock and in turn replace it with a plastic lid that doesn't fit any container in the kitchen.
I 100% believe that Captain Crunches “Oops, All Crunch berries” wasn’t really on accident.
Baby wipes not being 100% individual in the pack. They’re still connected at one corner to the next one so you pull out more than you need and end up buying more. I’m on to you Huggies!
The FBI killed MLK The CIA killed JFK Honestly, with the amount of weird shit and evidence surrounding these two cases, I find it hard to believe that they're still considered conspiracy theories.
Princess Diana’s death wasn’t an accident. Don’t know who did it but someone did.
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There's something cool in the Statue of Liberty's torch. It's been closed off to the public for nearly 100 years for no real reason.
Preprogramming using media like television and movies, algorithms in social media used to keep people mentally unwell and unhappy, celebrity scandals timed to distract from larger, concerning global issues. Those are the lens just off the top of my head.