It’s always the lizard people and the illuminati.
That was my abiding memory of the heyday of conspiracy theories in the post 9/11 years.
When London was bombed by Islamists in 2005 the Alex Jones crowd were very quick to get involved and excuse the migrant brown people from any real culpability. One of the more prominent conspiracy films about this attack was “7/7 Ripple Effect”
To quote a news article at the time:
The narrator alleges the four men blamed for the bombings were in fact fall guys in a government plot to win support for the war on terror; they were tricked into travelling to London with rucksacks on that day.
CCTV that shows them arriving in London was supposedly just to incriminate them. The film claims that they were not on the trains that blew up.
It's alleged the three men blamed for the Tube bombings were in fact murdered by police at Canary Wharf, after government agents set off pre-planted explosives to frame them.
This conspiracy was produced by a white man from Sheffield. Who jumped on this conspiracy, well Alex Jones did but you know who else did? Muslims in Britain
A copy of his film was sent to a survivor of the attacks and to the Chairman of the Birmingham Central Mosque, Dr Mohammed Naseem.
He has long harboured doubts about the government account. "The Ripple Effect is more convincing than the government statement," he says.
Dr Naseem made 2,000 copies of 7/7 Ripple Effect for the mosque. At Friday prayers he asked the congregation to raise their hands if they did not accept the government version - nearly the entire gathering did.
Great work here by this white conspiracy retard from Sheffield. It’s now par the course that for any kind of horrific attack there are dozens if not hundreds of people willing to excuse migrant violence instead preferring complex confusing conspiracy theories. These people are often cowards who refuse to look at the actual crimes their governments are permitting in the mass migration that allows such attacks. For years conspiracy theorists have made for useful patsys but the rot has only accelerated online and people now are invested in post-truth realities. This cropped up recently on a few channels I follow on Telegram.
Last year this 100 year old famous tree was felled. Growing along Hadrians wall it is certainly a beautiful tree and highly Instagramable image. Turns out that two white British guys committed this disgusting act but that is now a bridge too far for some people. To quote the disbelieving statement I saw:
I'm sorry, call me cynical, but am I not accepting that those two moronic untermensch were the actual perpetrators of felling the Sycamore at Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. We're meant to believe those two dicks, drove all the way out, with professional tree surgery equipment, felled a tree as clean & neatly as I've ever seen, then drove off unseen, just because they wanted 'bit of a laugh'... I know many fell for COVID & it's 'vaccine', but come on.
Unpacking the disbelief here it reveals a naive view of human nature. The author claims to be cynical but somehow accepting that there are just dicks who destroy things for the fun of it is a bridge too far. What kind of child like clown version of humanity does this guy hold? We’ve all seen this kind of behavior. If anything with the explosion of social media has shown us that, not to mention most of us have encountered such bitter nasty people out there in the real world who would get off on destroying something people like. The other elements of the disbelief are equally childish as a cursory reading of the case reveals both men had experience felling trees, owned chainsaws and there was video of them doing so. Again the author of this disbelieving statement is assuming our powerful state is setting these guys up as patsys, fall guys in some complicated conspiracy. As for the other elements “drove all the way out” it’s again revealed in court coverage they drove 40 minutes. This is also not a densely populated area of England, it’s pretty rural. Why wouldn’t they drive off unseen in the wee hours? These guys were tracked via their cell phones - hardly revolutionary crime fighting technology and yes someone stupid and malicious enough to fell this tree and also film it had their phone on them. This is all such ridiculous conjecture and disbelief being postulated it would be hard to take the individual in question seriously in the real world. Nasty people exist and do nasty things.
This is where conspiracy addled thinking drags you. To sounding like a naive child who thinks the world is rainbows and happiness all the way down. To face the cruel reality of the world is to accept that others fundamentally do not think like you. That they are driven by alien forces and motivations. To you and I the idea of felling such a tree for a laugh is abhorrent but for others it would generate mirth. The trouble with taking a conspiracy angle on everything is you ultimately completely diminish the real evil doing and incompetence we are fighting against in the real world. Most conspiracy theorists need to face the reality of human nature in the same way leftist tabula rasa types do. It’s like years of Alex Jones refusing to talk about the tribe whatsoever and insisting it’s interdimensional lizard beings. The tree stuff above is just such small potatoes in the wider scheme of things it goes to show how broken most people are in their thinking patterns about the modern world. The tricky part of this IS of course there are real legitimate nefarious things happen that do fall under the conspiracy tent.
Most people are just oneshotted by their first exposure to this stuff. That was why Qanon was so successful, whatever you decide it actually was. Was it a deliberate op by bad actors? Was it some trolls taking things too far? Were there a few real posts in there? Doesn’t really matter it still oneshotted thousands of people. The silver lining is like the COVID years a lot of people just forget and move on. The true believers are fewer than we realize it is always the masses who get caught up in the hysteria but then move on when things calm down. There are openly mainstream conspiracies just accepted now, ask most people about Epstein and they could be a died in the wool woke leftist and even they are going to question if he committed suicide. I’m reminded of Thomas777’s most controversial take on the subject of conspiracy about the grandfather of all modern American conspiracy pyschosis. Kennedy. That it actually just happened the way the mainstream say and that was it, nothing more complicated than how it played out and that is bad enough.
Conspiracy creates useful idiots. The influencers at the White House above with the redacted Epstein files that amounted to nothing. If anyone is a functionalist regarding the State it isn’t hard to see how the current system has adjust and absorbed this energy and been able to redirect it. If you want a laugh about this just look at the weird white Boomers who got behind Kash Patel as FBI director commenting on PF posts on Twitter asking for Kash to bring in the FBI guys they are convinced make up PF. It’s hilariously sad and the whole PF issue highlights that aforementioned oneshotting. Remember the number one reason most peope call the PF clowns feds is because they are not fat and out of shape (like the majority of the boomer gen x crowd typing their prayers to Kash). We live in an age where the notion of white men not being obese is evidence of conspiracy to a large portion of the population.
There is no way out of this future either. AI generated video and deep fakes are only going to make things worse, but by degrees rather than the paradigm shift. The reason for that is we live in a world of lies already. You can’t talk honestly about anything that matters. Most of these people have been told that race is a lie and even ostensible fellow travelers like E Michael Jones buy into such insane rhetoric. Thus you have a world where truth is just a post modern construct. Deep fake videos aren’t really anything new in a world where truth has been ruthlessly suppressed and made fake. In a world where such obvious lies of equality are forced on us daily it isn’t surprising that most people retreat into a believe nothing and invent everything. They are afraid of any reality which upsets their own narrative in the same way the elites have enforced their reality. The middle emulate the upper and the proles have always been strung along. At best you can call out the stupidity of these frankly banal conspiracy theories and people will still hate you for doing that. The post truth world will only double down.