I believe that there’s a huge magnet of sorts in the core of earth that attracts a specific brand, BIC, to it.

The only two items that always go missing. Pens. Lighters.

Always BIC.

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    The initial model they used in that initial trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was a marketing stunt and they always planned to replace it.

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    The core of the earth is a giant magnet. Really. It’s an iron core, and that’s one of the main things that gave The Earth a magnetic field to protect us against part of the deadly laser in the sky.

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    Slavery never went away, it was disguised as jobs for the working class. And now the capital class has been sold the wet dream of slavery 3.0 in the form of AI replacing not just the average job, but the average person themselves. No sick days, no complaints. That’s why AI is being shoved into everything and the climate and economy are on the brink of destruction, to get rid of us for good.

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    The fluoride in the water is secretly pushed by the sugar industry. Without it, their products would be rotting teeth faster than ever and people would buy less sweets as a result.

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    Not even really a theory but a historically verifiable strategy used by the automakers, but Jaywalking was invented by car companies to put the blame on cyclists and pedestrians for getting killed by cars so that they could monopolize use of the public roads for cars and here we are over 100yrs later and vehicle collisions are like the number 2 leading cause of death in the country behind gun violence.

    At least the gun manufacturers didn’t steal public space out from under the feet of everyone.

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    Belief in alien UFOs is deliberately promoted as it makes a good cover for experimental government aircraft.

    The NSA has backdoors in most computer chipsets.

    Alex Jones is a false flag crisis actor designed to discredit anyone revealing genuine conspiracies.

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    Government members actually don’t care about people and just want to be elected to get more money and power. Yeah, I know it’s a silly one.

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    Mine is that the term “conspiracy theo[rist/ry]” was made up by intelligence agencies to hide the shady things they were doing to the public, like testing torture methods, drugs and experimental weapons on impoverished communities

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      Ye that’s true. The Illuminati conspiracy was one of them. Jon Ronson did some good work with that.

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    The romans had circuitry. Maybe not electric powered, but water powered? Oh you bet. If they could rig up an entire senate to rotate like a lazy suzan by manufacturing ball bearings and hooking it up to advanced gearing powered by a river…?

    Plus they knew how to work with lead metal, so other conductive metals werent completely out of reach, and they were masters of mass-scale uniform production. Their road structures and aquaducts barely even scratch the surface of what their engineers could do

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    JFK’s head spontaneously exploded with no explanation. The government quickly found some local bum, framed him and then shot him before he could say anything, to manufacture the idea of an assassination, because the alternative—that anyone’s head could spontaneously explode at any time for no reason—would cause mass panic and a collapse of the economy.

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        Ya, it was fairly big news a couple months ago. MS was apparently dicking around the researcher (NightmareEclipse) who uncovered it and he went nuclear and dropped that one along with a few others in rapid succession.

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    I believed in reptilians / illuminati until I got diagnosed with schizophrenia :/

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    In Star Wars Episode 1, George intentionally included many hints that something weird was happening with Jar Jar, but the public backlash against the character caused a rewrite of Episodes 2 and 3, including the specific introduction of Count Dooku. Jar Jar was supposed to be revealed as a Sith.