What are some things a conspiracy theorist has told you? (lemmy.world)

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Coworker. I told him to fuck off with his conspiracy bullshit. But back when I patronized him, one thing he said was that he didn't consider belief a binary as in that you either believe something or don't. He viewed all beliefs as a continuum. You can believe one thing 10% and another thing 90%, but he wouldn't let me pin him down as to whether he "believed" any particular thing or not.

All while trying to convince me "tall white aliens" run the U.S. government and Sandy Hook was faked by a bunch of actors and the U.S. military had invisibility technology and planes that aren't dumping weather-controlling chemicals don't leave trails in the sky. Pretty standard QAnon-level bullshit. But if I asked him if he believed any of those things, he wouldn't answer. Honestly, it makes sense as a dishonest rhetorical tactic.

Dude also literally drinks borax in his juice cleanse drink.

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[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

Brother in law has everything: hollow earth, flat earth, vaccines, chem trails.

The best: he thinks the government will steal his money if he gets a job, and that’s why he’s unemployed.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

I mean they will steal some of your money... So that's probably the least crazy theory

[-] rezifon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If taxes are theft then red lights are imprisonment.

[-] perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

A friend of mine was a Nazi and believed that Jews controlled lots of stuff. He believed that they were trying to destroy white people through race mixing and therefore made the country take in more immigrants. He's getting treatment in prison now.

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I got a Nazi friend too, believes all that whacky shit. The whackiest conspiracy theory that he believes is that his brown ass is Aryan and that Hitler wouldn't have killed him if given the chance.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 0 points 3 weeks ago

Are you sure he's a friend?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Electricity from nuclear power plants is radioactive and that's why people get cancer.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose it is made of beta particles.

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