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Psychology of conspiracy theories

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I have a thought.
If ufo's where visiting us wouldn't they be interfering with our space junk?

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What year? ๐Ÿคท

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@shavixmir

There is another psychological factor involved in those who tend to latch onto such theories: the powerless and disenfranchised, the people who feel life owes them something and especially those who feel life has cheated them out of some entitlement. Just look at the people who believe Trump’s Big Lie. ‘Immigrants are taking away your jobs’ ‘democrats stole the election’ — Trump knows very well how to stir up his base.


@metal-brain said
I can prove it.

I will start with African Americans. What percentage of African Americans believed OJ Simpson was innocent of murder right after the verdict was announced?

What percentage of Americans believed election interference claims by Hillary Clinton? What percentage of Americans believed election interference claims by Trump?
It’s nothing to do with percentages. If everyone on the whole planet believes the Earth is a pancake at the center of a universe created in six days about 6,000 yrs ago, they are ALL deluded.


@moonbus said
It’s nothing to do with percentages. If everyone on the whole planet believes the Earth is a pancake at the center of a universe created in six days about 6,000 yrs ago, they are ALL deluded.
Ohh please....

Everybody has a conspiracy theory that they think is sensible because it is not like those other silly conspiracy theories. This one makes sense, is what people tell themselves. It isn't like those nutjobs who think the moon landing was faked.

Even admitted conspiracy theorists have their standards. For example, I roll my eyes at conspiracy theories involving aliens from outer space. We all have our standards.


@metal-brain said
Ohh please....

Everybody has a conspiracy theory that they think is sensible because it is not like those other silly conspiracy theories. This one makes sense, is what people tell themselves. It isn't like those nutjobs who think the moon landing was faked.

Even admitted conspiracy theorists have their standards. For example, I roll my eyes at conspiracy theories involving aliens from outer space. We all have our standards.
You have standards?


@metal-brain said
Ohh please....

Everybody has a conspiracy theory that they think is sensible because it is not like those other silly conspiracy theories. This one makes sense, is what people tell themselves. It isn't like those nutjobs who think the moon landing was faked.

Even admitted conspiracy theorists have their standards. For example, I roll my eyes at conspiracy theories involving aliens from outer space. We all have our standards.
Your opinion doesn’t count. You don’t believe the rubbish you post here. Your purpose here is to sow doubt and discord among those likely to believe the rubbish you post.


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The first year 1969 was faked so the USA could "win the space race"...

By 1972, the last year, they did it successfully and quit.


@moonbus said
Your opinion doesn’t count. You don’t believe the rubbish you post here. Your purpose here is to sow doubt and discord among those likely to believe the rubbish you post.
How ironic. That is a conspiracy theory.
It is also slanderous nonsense.


@shavixmir said
You have standards?
I have never posted any aliens from outer space on here...ever!
I have never posted fake moon landing theories....ever!

I have standards.

Hillary Clinton is a conspiracy theorist. She openly said there was a vast right wing conspiracy to get them. She was behind the Steele Dossier, a fabricated conspiracy theory. Woodrow Wilson spoke of a political conspiracy. In politics conspiracy theories are actually very common.

Everybody believes conspiracy theories except for mentally handicapped people.

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