For real, I really want to hear all the wacky and potentially true conspiracies Hexbear users have. It would be nice to have a conspiracy spot on the internet that isn’t antisemitic as well.
if there were a conspiracy community I fear I would post in it too much and be labeled a crank. Trying to think of some of my favorites offhand: Two 9/11 hijackers lived with an FBI informant in San Diego; there was a CIA operative at Jonestown before the mass suicide; Charles Manson may have undergone an MK-Ultra procedure and learned from it; there was a pre-Dallas assassination plot in store for JFK in Chicago, with an ex-military patsy put in position; Clinton obfuscated the local and IRS investigations into Mena Airport as a drug-smuggling hub. Many more I’m on the fence about
I fear I would post in it too much and be labeled a crank.
I’ve been trying to get over this fear as well, because I now believe many things that I’ve laughed at other people for believing in the past. I really regret doing that because I realize I fell for the propaganda. Psy-ops work in part by making people afraid to speak their mind for fear of being labelled as cranks.
Imagine you are the government and you have committed a tremendous crime against democracy. You tried to cover it up as well as you can, but it’s impossible to conceal everything because of the sheer scope of what you did. There exist many smoking guns out there which any dedicated investigator will be able to piece together, and you know that anyone who spends enough time listening to them will probably be convinced. What do you do? You run a PR campaign to convince people that only cranks would spend any time looking into that stuff, and you slander and smear anyone who dares to speak out.
I used to wait for other people to speak up but then I realized I need to be the change.
Two 9/11 hijackers lived with an FBI informant in San Diego.
That’s just a fact. The conspiracy theory is what this fact strongly implies.
Here’s another crazy fact with similarly disturbing implications: hundreds of Israeli spies were arrested in the months leading up to 9/11, and some of them lived next door to Mohammad Atta in Florida. https://archive.ph/OIRuL
I think it’d encourage conspiracism as a mindset. Look at how people are with 9/11. Humans have a natural need to seek out patterns, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia , and conspiracy theorists online link six separate plane crashes together as some kind of coordinated thing. There’s no room for accidents or for mechanical/procedural issues, no recognition that coincidences happen, just straight to xenophobic or anti-government conspiracies. That’s not something we should reward.
I’ve only had one person really bite and it gave me just enough of an idea where to take it, but every subsequent attempt has stalled. If I can just catch someone who’s either really passionate about 9/11 conspiracies or 9/11 conspiracy debunking it’s going to uniquely enrage them.
Given the last “give me your most :jesse-wtf: takes” post, I dread AND crave it
Might be this one.
Fun thread.
https://hexbear.net/post/185743
Another one:
Michael Brooks was murdered
I can’t help but think about this. I was about to see him in Austin before the show was cancelled due to Covid and then he just died so suddenly a short time later. It felt like he was on a fast upward trajectory.
Unironically the presence of him and Jamie on the Majority Report was such a perfect little microchosm of how pipelines could work on the left. Sam was on Bob’s Burgers and had the socdem politics and aesthetics of legitimacy via the talk radio background/format. But then he was also the straight man to all the jokes by these shitheads who happened to run niche radical podcasts. Michael’s combination of comedy with solid leftist geopolitical commentary/coverage is still unmatched. And frankly watching Jamie roast Sam for exploiting her labor as her employer was still one of my favorite bits
The CIA killed JFK because he was a Gamer! :jfk-gaming:
He was probably killed because he didn’t invade Cuba and didn’t want to go to war in Vietnam, that probably made the MIC very angry. :very-smart: