• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    people still believe the moon landing/launches are all cgi made up even to this day, seems very prominent amongst older asians believing in this conspiracy.

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        6 days ago

        so like, there’s a whole lot of nothing to do out in the boonies. talking about conspiracy theories and making up new ones is fun entertainment. now believing in them? you always got someone who takes shit too seriously and needs to be taken aside, have things explained to. but most of the folk take the stories like you would a radio show, movie, or sermon.

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          6 days ago

          Yeah, most people don’t believe in them. But a concerning amount of people do. I’ve been keeping up with conspiracy people since early 2010s. There’s a huge amount of idiots who take that shit seriously. They are mostly led by grifters who sell snake oil to the morons but some of the leaders are also absolute imbeciles who believe this shit.

          Sometimes its genuinely scary how many there are. If I had to guess, I’d say about 15-20% of people believe on one or more stupid conspiracy theory. Thats a LOT.

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            6 days ago

            my mother used to listen to art bell “to laugh at the weirdos” (until i noticed and pointed out the racism in the show) but we did enjoy listening to a good bigfoot or ufo story. especially since my extended family had a bigfoot costume we liked to bust out at family reunions. you had to be in your 40s or… i don’t know what i did to get the secret insider knowledge it was a costume and not actually bigfoot. I think everyone thought i was going to die so i got all the family secrets early.

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              6 days ago

              Yeah I know a few people who like to watch/listen to the conspiracy weirdos for entertainment. And thats fine.

              I used to read conspiracy theories in the same way I used to read ghost stories and such. It was just a different kind of fiction, something that felt that it could be real. These days the stupidity is too much and I can’t deal with getting the stuff from the source, I have to use intermediates like Professor Dave Explains, SciManDan, etc youtube channel people.