What are some conspiracy theories you absolutely believe to be true?

3 years ago by echoplex21 to c/asklemmy

Was reminded how Epstien not killing himself was/is so accepted yet it’s still a conspiracy theory. Is there any similar ones you guys believe to be completely true ?

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potterpockets 168 points 3 years ago

MLK was killed by the US Government/with Government warning and approval not because of his policies on race, but because his message was getting (though somewhat always had been) socialist/anti-capitalist, and between the historic fear of slave revolts, the new fear of communist revolutions, and the monied business interests not wanting to cede any power they ended MLK to prevent potential calls for a social revolution.

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flipht 101 points 3 years ago

It's insane how many left leaning leaders were assassinated. And it isn't a coincidence that it was during the red scare. What we KNOW about McCarthyism is crazy enough, now think of all the stuff they wouldn't say out loud to fight the "red menace."

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Alto 41 points 3 years ago

J Edgar Hoover wanted to round up all the "leftists" and put them in camps.

I put quotes around leftist because simply not hating black people was enough to get you on that list.

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potterpockets 20 points 3 years ago path: 0 2248157 2248323 2248560, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 0
Rilichu 19 points 3 years ago

People are so unaware how common politically motivated murder was in the late 19th/early 20th century in the US. Our country is rittled with shallow graves belonging to labor and civil rights activists. Wikipedia for example has a list documenting anti-labor murders totaling just over 1100 that we know of. Much of that violence was especially targeted towards black labor organizers.

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agitatedpotato 9 points 3 years ago

In both the BLM movement and OWS, leaders and organizers were still meeting untimely deaths and I don't think the clandestine agencies of government have changed enough, (or at all), to rule them out.

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sadreality 30 points 3 years ago
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feedum_sneedson -1 points 3 years ago

sardines are actually a cheap, nutritious and filling dinner

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Alto 19 points 3 years ago

That ones not really a conspiracy. We know the FBI did it.

People just don't care, which is the most fucked up part

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Domriso 20 points 3 years ago

That doesn't make it not a conspiracy, it makes it not a conspiracy theory. Instead, it is a factual conspiracy that is just not well known.

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Mongostein 7 points 3 years ago

People care, but what are you going to do? Until the majority is ready to violently overthrow corrupt institutions you’re stuck with it. Now getting the majority to agree on which ones are corrupt… hoo boy. Good luck, America.

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UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN 12 points 3 years ago
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HughJanus -16 points 3 years ago
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Domriso 17 points 3 years ago

But as a martyr the government can paint him as being only about racism, not about economics.

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Nonameuser678 14 points 3 years ago

Have you ever listened to MLK speak or read anything he's written? Dude would absolutely be what he is today if he had not been murdered.

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