Interesting. Government minister Andrew Bowie is the latest to join the ranks of those disseminating outright conspiracy theories on national television.
Fifteen minute cities = you can only use shops within a 15 minute radius of your house, by order of your local council.
Edit: This batshittery formed part of Mark Harper's speech at Conference yesterday. #UKPolitics#ConspiracyTheories
On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
Sociology professor Christopher T. Conner started looking into the QAnon movement four years ago, but his research soon broadened into all kinds of conspiracy theorists, from race scientists to New Age spiritualists. He writes for @TheConversationUS about why people are susceptible and how politicians and influential figures take advantage of them. Do you have conspiracy theorists in your life (if you don't know any, maybe it's you 👀)?
"Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults."
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
An account using the name & photo of #Michigan#BarryCounty Sheriff lawbreaker & [#ConspiracyTheorist] #DarLeaf released >2,100 pages of emails from employees of Dominion; the company says Leaf improperly accessed internal msgs via breach of a #CourtOrder.
The accts signal a potential tactical shift in how #China aims to #influence American #politics, w/more of a willingness to target specific candidates & parties, including Biden.
Maybe next time don't sink your entire #pillow#fortune into absurd #conspiracytheories, and expensive #lawsuits that go nowhere. As a spectator, watching Mike Pillow lose it all has been very entertaining.
Malcolm Nance looks at how quickly the slimy fingers of conspiracy-theory propagandists got ahold of the Moscow terrorist attack story and now the Baltimore bridge destruction, and turned them into bizarre sagas involving Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ukraine, and gay Jews.
The #House is expected to vote Tues afternoon on whether to make Rep #JimJordan its next speaker. Jordan, a #RightWing conservative agitator, who spews #ConspiracyTheories & #propaganda, is allied w/ Trump. He was chosen by fellow #HouseRepublicans on Fri to lead the House but must win a majority in the full chamber to take the gavel.
Feeling very upset and worried. My mom, who's my #caregiver and best friend, has believed for years in #ConspiracyTheories like the #illuminati. Now she seems to be believing more strongly and insists they're real , the #news is fake, and no one can be trusted. Says I'm naive for not believing and how can I be sure when I have so little life experience. All I know is when I research this stuff, I'm more convinced it's not true. Don't know what to do, afraid this will cause problems between us.
#StefanieLambert, a #Michigan lawyer who has championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested Mon afternoon because of a bench warrant, acc/to a spox for the #USMarshals Service.
Help, I've fallen down a conspiracy theory hole and the comments are fucking FASCINATING.
The discussion:
if the US and Russia share a border, why does it take 19 hours to fly from Alaska to Moscow?? What are they hiding???
Some of the comments:
One day I looked at the back of the globe and my mind didn’t feel right
It's strange how the flight is still 9+ hours no matter which airline you take
Sooo where does that put australia & New Zealand, Papuan New Guinea?? Ive have suspected all is closer then we are told!
cause every time you change time zones you go into a new dimension and you have to adjust to it . just a theory
anybody else think it's strange that airports use...flight manifests??? them naming it a manifest infers they're manifesting or 'creating' falsehoods...
You just clicked something in my brain😫 How are we SO programed?????
the US and Russia DO share a small maritime border, that's about 55 minutes "drive" to cross
** it's a maritime border, so you can't really "drive" across it
Hard to overstate how irresponsible that Politico piece is. Not only is it substantially inaccurate, but this is the stuff that leads to threats, harassment and violence. It has in the past, so I’m not speaking hypothetically. And yet they chose to publish this bullshit story for clicks. #media#conspiracytheories#gazaprotests