LandmassWave

LandmassWave t1_jayy9xm wrote

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LandmassWave t1_ja53epz wrote

>If you buy into the deeper theories with no basis in known reality (i.e. world governments are ultimately controlled by aliens) then your brain is telling your ego that you have more knowledge and power than the 99% of the population ("the sheep") and you are aware, while they are simply not intelligent enough to see, not as intelligent as you.

The irony is these researchers are displaying a similar bias - "we're more knowledgeable than people who believe conspiracy theories".

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LandmassWave t1_ja51fzl wrote

Tuskegee experiments. Lab leak theory. Russiagate.

Then you get the ones in the middle where the theory is an exaggeration.

Bush didn't orchestrate 9/11 but the government did try to cover up the real perpetrator (Prince Bandar).

Comet Pizza wasn't a venue, but we've had multiple sexual predators in very high places exposed since 2017.

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LandmassWave t1_ja50a7f wrote

>We seem to have a high percentage of conspiracy theorists compared to other countries

We've been lied to by our institutions too many times.

The reason I don't buy into BD911, or we didn't land on the moon, is because the conspiracy would be too hard to execute.

It sure isn't that the government has earned the benefit of the doubt.

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