My best friend has an unnatural talent for this sort of thing and really enjoys toying with conspiracy theory nuts.
When folks start talking about crazy shit, it makes me very anxious and I tend to shut down. Not my buddy. He eggs them on, encourages it, and gets them to say things or agree with things that are even more outlandish than where they conversation started. Things will start at "China invented covid to kill off old people" and somehow end up at "Hillary Clinton paid to have her chromosomes added to the covid vaccines so that DNA evidence can no longer be used against her in the courts".
I love this method and employ it at bars. It's like gonzo conversationalism.
I think that basically is yeah. Then, when they saw that it had gathered a following, admins on a #chan who were pro-Trump and think that they're super smart because they use Haskell took over to pump up fringe support.
Yeah, but how do I know that what you just wrote isn't another conspiracy theory? I'm just so confused
Oh that's just the normal effect of the alien mind control rays.
I once tried to get a conspiracy theory going that Flat Earth was a fake conspiracy started by the government to cover up the real conspiracy - that the moon is flat. That's why we only ever see one side of it and why we were able to land on it. It didn't take lol.
why we were able to land on it.
This is why you failed. Everyone knows the moon landing was fake and directed by Kubrick.
I messed up, had to say "it was a Hollywood job" instead of it was fake.
I was hoping to sneak that in, get people balling on one conspiracy theory to get in on another one lol
When I started reading these comments I didn't expect them to be full of actual, unironic conspiracy theories. 🤔
Dinosaurs are a lie created by the wizards to hide the existence of dragons.
