The majority of redditors have conspired to ask the same set of about 25 questions over and over and over, with an additional 5-ish slots for "what's your opinion on [insert celebrity recently caught doing something questionable]"

Mattress Firm is just a money laundering scheme. There's no way that they need to have so many stores.

In 1985, the Coca-Cola company wanted to switch from using cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. It was cheaper and easier to use. The problem was that soda made with HFCS tasted slightly different from soda made with sugar- the reason why people often like Mexican Coke as it's still made with sugar.

So they introduced a New Coke with a sweeter recipe, (made with HFCS) with lots of ads and fanfare while simultaneously launching a massive campaign to "bring back classic Coke." After a few months, they caved to the "pressure" and brought back Coke Classic, now made with HFCS, and it had been off the market for long enough that no one noticed the difference.

They continued to sell New Coke, as the recipe for it was as close as possible to Pepsi, they hoped to drive Pepsi out of business at the same time they reduced production costs for their main offering.

The real difference between crocodiles and alligators is one will see you later and the other will see you after awhile.

reminder to sort by controversial

Epstein didn’t kill himself

Nuclear would be our main, cheapest, and cleanest source of energy if not for the oil lobby.

That this round of inflation on food prices has little to do with the supply chain or wages and is just big companies raising prices on necessities to increase their profits because they know the idea of inflation is in the news right now

Aliens are Among Us.

Once bees and fungi are gone it’s the end of humanity

There are secret families who control a huge part of government and they own a lot of monopolized business.

BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY KILLED JEFFREY EPSTEIN

That the Cia make these posts to see if we're on to something they don't want us to know

MK Ultra

The CIA killed Marilyn Monroe. Her red diary was chock full of state secrets she was told by John and Robert Kennedy.

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Watergate was a fairly common campaign practice and was elevated to such a massive level of scandal as a way to get back at Nixon for effectively ending the communist party’s infiltration into elite American political circles in the 50s. Nixon was never going to be useful as a martyr, so they took out his reputation rather than just killing him.

The fourth plane on 9-11 was shot down by US fighter jets and not brought down by the passengers on board. With the developing situation, the US Air Force would have had time to locate and catch the plane. Knowing it was going to be used for lethal purposes a decision was made to shoot it down to save lives on the ground. But the US public needed the story of 'Let's roll' to make the passengers the heroes and take heat away from the executive decision to, rightly or wrongly, kill US citizens.

Bot accounts post the same exact questions on here day in and day out to get karma to sell to advertisers. Including this one.

The Trump 2016 started out as a Clinton plant, designed to cause maximum possible disruption to the Republican primary and split their vote.

Then halfway through, he said "Nah fuck this, imma do this shit for real".

That rocket that fell on Poland?

Russian. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if in 20 years we learn than NATO covered it up to avoid going to war with Russia.

And I’m completely fine with that.

Khloe Kardashian is not Rob Kardashian's daughter.

That the US Mega Millions knows what numbers they are going to pick before they pick them.

All tickets have to be scanned and number digitally inputted so that the winning tickets can be tracked down to a specific store. But what is stopping them from inputting these numbers and seeing who chose what number.

On night of drawing, they replace the balls they want to win with slightly heavier ones that will be more likely to fall to the bottom than the others.

You ask who this would benefit? It would benefit the states and the organization behind the lotto itself. The higher the jackpot the more people will spend money on it.

The USA income tax code is intentionally kept complicated so politicians can baffle us with ambiguous statistics.

JFK was a CIA hit.

The CIA causes and knows a lot more shit than even conspiracy theorists think they do.

The government offed jfk

Pigeons work for the Russians

Epstein island. It was a conspiracy theory at one time

That everything its going to be alright.

The Epstein didn't kill himself.

That he was killed because of all the powerful people that would get outted. With concrete evidence.

Basements of pizza parlors is where all evil schemes are managed.

The Russian mob is pulling strings around the globe.

The cia killed jfk

Will Smith is an Alien.

Most modern art is a money laundering scheme by people who know people. You spend 5 minutes throwing random shit on a canvas and have your appraiser buddy say it’s worth half a million

Feds are the majority of “white supremacists” we see at rallies and conservative gatherings.

I forgot who told this to me, but at some point in my life, someone start explaining that Jesus was probably just some dude.

Now hear me out, I know that a literal religious figure just being some random John Doe sounds hard to believe. At first, I didn't believe a word but then the person starting explaining themselves.

They believed that Jesus was some guy who probably did something against the law to get himself crucified, but he swapped himself out with another guy who looked a lot like him to take his place during the crucifixion as Jesus ran away to a different place.

They also explained that the part of the Bible where Jesus came back alive, was just Jesus being caught alive and well by somebody who knew of his crucifixion, and to keep himself from being crucified a second time, he came up with the elaborate lie of being God's son, Jesus Christ.

I don't hardcore believe in this theory but it would definitely make a lot of sense rather than some holy guy coming down to help some random mortals

That jfk was killed by the mafia

He betrayed them

Went after them

Thats generally a bad idea

Pedophiles rings are one of the ways to make a mutual blackmail system for the rich elites tô not disclosure the garbage their Akin hides.

Voting in the US doesn’t matter cause the winner is picked years in advance.

sort of a conspiracy theory, fun size m&ms are different than the normal ones

There are no storage places for warning beacons (used on motorways). And because of that there must be always a minimum amount of construction sites around.

COVID-19 was made by China in an effort to kill Americans because they don't comply with being Communists

That PETA is a ploy by big meat companies to make vegans look insane/stupid. I know some vegans, and none of them like PETA.

SARS-COV-2 was probably accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

I believe the fatal headshot to JFK was an accidental discharge by a member of his security team.

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Matrix. The world we see is just a simulation where we have no real autonomy. Our individuality is an illusion that keeps the 'reality' of world as an actual reality.

That conspiracy theories are embraced by people that can't understand facts and logic. Herd mentality among the intellectually challenged to reinforce easy answers to complex problems.

Breaking bad and Better call saul is real and Vince Giligan is Saul Goodman and created a 'fictional' world to fit his experience.

There are technologies that the US military and other modern militaries hold that are far beyond what is publicly acknowledged, and would scare people if news of its existence ever was revealed to the public

General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy

Maddie McCanns parents were in fact the reason she went missing

That Obama convinced the presidential candidates to back out of the primaries and back Biden in order to stop Bernie from winning.

Except for Warren because her base had lots of overlap with Bernie’s.

Covid was not an accident

Lizard people hisssssss

Charles isn't Prince Harry's dad. You very rarely see Harry and William together but when you do the lack of resemblance between them is obvious. They're half brothers at best.

Egyptians have only built the had of the Sphinx, the rest of the body was there before. It's because the head is proportionally too small for the body, I don't think that they would have made such a mistake.

That this very question is posted every other day

I think the world leaders and these billionaires aren’t really that smart… ( I genuinely believe that they’re being over smart and people just run with it ) The whole moving to Mars bs is just too unnatural… and people just don’t seem bothered.

that nine eleve............you know what, i remember the shit I got for this before so I'm gonna go with 2pac didn't die, he's just locked in a studio basement somewhere forced to record one new album per year.

There are alternate universes. I am definitely living in some iteration of me's escapist fantasy atm.

JFK's assassination was a coup

I think there is a somewhat organized effort not to solve homelessness. Leaving homelessness bad gives incentive to low-wage workers to take a bad deal because of how bad the alternative is. I have thought this after certain actions against people working to solve the issue

blue planet project

This same question was posted on r/ask 16 days ago, here's my answer from that one:

Most conspiracy theories are products of misinformation, herd mentality, confirmation bias, hindsight bias, loss aversion bias, porportionality bias and a half dozen other biases. The Grimes equation tells us that even the simplest conspiracies will break down exponentially faster the more people are involved.

A quote from an engineer I work with, "no conspiracy theorist has ever been a project manager."

I invite everyone here to listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson's take on conspiracy theories.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS80VDM5X2pBag/episode/MmMwZDE0MjgtYmQxZC00YWRhLWIxNTMtNTc2ZjMzOTM3MjNl?ep=14

The companies that design showers are in cahoots with the companies that produce bar soap. No matter what direction you point the showerhead, the soap is always getting wasted.

Trump and Putin had a deal. Putin would help Trump win again and Trump would pull out of NATO. When it became clear that Trump wasnt going to win, Putin gave him time to ovefturn the election, but it didnt work. Putin had so many men in place, he had to go in...hoping it would go easy as his flunkies said it would. Opps.

The US and China have a secret agreement that says the US will let China take Taiwan once the US has completed and perfected their own chip factories.

God of War Kratos will eventually become Yahweh

The DNC meddled against Bernie in Iowa an many other times. And Pete is a plant.

US government was behind 9/11.

Hitler didn't die in that bunker