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Or at least events commonly considered in the bourgeois media to be "conspiracy theories." Personally, I believe that Joseph Stalin was assassinated in 1953 by the Khrushchev clique to ensure their rise to power.

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[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

epstein didnt kill himself

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

The man we know as Tony Hawk is a CIA agent tasked with marketing skateboarding to teenagers, causing them to injure themselves, thereby boosting sales of opioid painkillers for decades to come. The real Tony Hawk died in 1982.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago

I personally ascribe to the uniparty theory, behind the scenes the corporate liberals and reactionaries scheme with capitalists to keep the worker oppressed. Democracy is a hoax and the system is little more than a dictatorship of capital.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

I'm gonna say flat earth and I'm gonna keep saying it until someone funds me traveling to space.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

CIA couped Whitlam, theres something the US government knows about UFOs that they aren't sharing(it might be aliens but I haven't seen convincing evidence), the Karen meme was pushed to make caring about consumer rights "cringe", and probably some others I can't think of right now

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Karen started out with being about white women using their privilege to hurt others - barbeque Becky was the prototype. Like with most things it got flanderised as soon as it hit mainstream

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 14 points 9 hours ago

School shootings are allowed to continue to make society more accepting of private (especially religious) schools and homeschooling with the goal of dismantling public education. This is of course a multi-pronged attack on public services and public sector employment generally where higher than average rates of unionization and women and BIPOC are employed.

[–] Bolshechick@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

The thing that hit the pentagon on 9/11 was not a plane, but a missile. 9/11 was completely an inside job

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 36 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Pizzagate was a US government op designed to preemptively discredit anyone who would give a shit about the whole Epstein thing

I'll go to my grave believing this

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My theory is that is was designed to desensitise people to the atrocities. Probably a combination of both.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think we're both saying the same thing here ey

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

I think you’re saying that pizzagate was such an elaborate conspiracy with little to no proof, it makes people think that any conspiracy of a pedophilic cabal must be as unfounded. Even though we have tons of proof now.

I’m saying that pizzagate took away the shock of the discovery of a real pedophilic cabal by already floating the idea around years before without proof. So people are already used to the idea that it’s real but also used to the idea that they can’t do anything about it, even though there is a lot of evidence this time.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Fort Detrick/COVID is from Maryland, not Wuhan

All Billionaires Are Paedophiles. All of them.

Not particular pressing and I could go either way on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger wasn't extinct but was now limited to incredibly remote and inaccessible areas a la the film The Hunter

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[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The popular conception in the 90s and 00s of environmentalist, animal rights, and other left-wing activists as obnoxious, naive children was deliberately inculcated via popular media by the billionaire class.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 33 points 12 hours ago

This is not a billionaire class conspiracy, this is a project by the full bourgeois state. Literally thousands of green activists have died or disappeared just in the last 10 years and IIRC it was worse in the 00's.

[–] cbd@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

the ufo phenomenon is a coverup of classified military planes by air force special intelligence

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[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago
  1. Israel did 9/11 ( I didn’t believe this until after 10/7 same exact playbook)

  2. Covid came from Fort detrick

  3. Trudeau is the son of Fidel

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago

American media always portrays foreign movies as undecipherable pretentious garbage so americans dont realize they're watching uninspired rip-offs.

[–] 0__0@hexbear.net 41 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Well, we already know the US waged an active propaganda campaign against the Chinese vaccine

Considering that, has anyone noticed that 5G conspiracy theories are mostly gone? Strange that just when China had the upper hand in 5G, they were the most prevalent...

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Don't forget poisoning the well for legitimate criticism of Gates.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-covid-data-ihme/

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[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 45 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (6 children)

Bush let it happen on purpose

CIA+Mafia Gusanos killed JFK

Evangelicals were promoted by the CIA to counter liberation theology.

I always thought it was wierd how the "new athiest" movement went from religious criticism to almost exlusively hating Muslims. I thought their brains broke after 9/11 or something. I never would have guessed a pedophilic mossad agent was cultivating that attitude among those fucking creeps with philanthropic contributions and sex trafficking.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Evangelicals were promoted by the CIA to counter liberation theology.

Is this a conspiracy theory, when they've admitted to this publicly?

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[–] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 24 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

I was going to comment directly to the post with my own answers, but you seem to have written exactly what I was going to say.

So I'll just add that I think it is a conspiracy itself that so many kooky conspiracy theories are boosted and amplified as a means to discredit all conspiracy theories. Doing this allows people who are understandably ignorant of the history and context (aka "normies') the ability to say "oh, that's just a conspiracy theory" to immediately shut down any consideration that the thing they're being presented with is true. The person who says "I don't believe in conspiracy theories" gets to look like the smart rational person even though all they did was spout a thought-terminating cliche, because so many "conspiracy theories" that are intentionally cultivated and amplified get massive amounts of attention, from Q-anon shit, to UFOs, to bigfoot (sorry SFS you rock, but those are silly), to just about anything Alex Jones and his listeners talk about, really are just kooky noise. Conspiracy theories as a concept is an op to discredit real whistleblowers and anyone who believes them.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

It started with Roswell. They were obviously testing classified aircraft, but because a bunch of people thought aliens were involved, they ran with it so every conspiratorial plot has two narratives: the official narrative where there's nothing suspicious (it was a weather balloon) and the official crank narrative (it was an alien spacecraft) while the most plausible explanation (it was classified research) gets pushed off the stage by the first two narratives.

You see this with 9/11. There's the official narrative (al-Qaeda hates the US because the US has freedom) and the official crank narrative (the US blew up the towers with a controlled demolition) when there's far more explanations than "the CIA didn't know about al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda didn't know that the CIA didn't know about al-Qaeda" and "the CIA rigged three buildings with explosives."

Hell, they're even trying to do this with Epstein. The official narrative is that Epstein killed himself. The official crank narrative they're trying to push is that uh aktually Epstein didn't die and is still alive. Both narratives take up space for what actually happened, which is that US intelligence liquidated an asset when the asset outlived their usefulness and became a liability.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago

Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.

Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.

At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is my favourite conspiracy theory, the one about conspiracy theories. While the concept has existed probably forever, the term "conspiracy theory" didn't start getting used until after JFK, and we start to see a lot of other stuff like fake moon landing, lizard people etc. getting their start and being lumped in with the JFK assassination around that time. The difference between a conspiracy and "conspiracy theory" is "Who benefits?" actual conspiracies have conspirators with specific goals in mind, "conspiracy theories" have some vague nebulous bad guys hiding the "Truth" for unknown but nefarious reasons, they're often lumped in together because one automatically discredits the other just by being compared to it.

[–] DwigtRortugal@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

It's a crowning achievement of the Dulles-era (and the immediate "post" Dulles-era which was still essentially a Dulles organization) CIA, the master stroke being Allen Dulles sitting on the fucking Warren Commission.

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

In the same way that Robert Maxwell was a "triple agent" (Mossad/KGB/MI6) that sold Israeli spyware and claimed to be personal friends with the Soviet leadership (Gorbachev in particular) along with embedding himself in the British elite class, Jeffery Epstein was a continuation of that. Ghislaine Maxwell is Robert Maxwell's daughter. Epstein was likely the way that the Maxwell's could get into the USA, something Robert struggled with (selling Sandia Israeli spyware certainly did not help). So Epstein was the key to getting to the US elite political class and institutions, allowing for quadruple alliances (CIA) this time or even more, something that Robert didn't have. If that meant paedophilia, human trafficking, prostitution, sex trafficking, and associated blackmail was necessary to get Epstein onboard, it was a price Ghislaine was willing to pay to get access to the USA. Which allowed for all the access to elites from all over the world, which is now obvious. But at some point they got in over their heads, and the US and Israel wanted to get rid of them. The UK probably didn't because of the reputational damage to the royal family, and Russia didn't care. Which is why Netanyahu attacks his political opponents for being associated with Epstein and seems to have a lot fewer links to him and the Maxwells than other Israeli figures. And then Epstein and Maxwell were arrested in the US and Epstein died.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Sirhan Sirhan was an MK ULTRA victim, triggered by the 'woman in the polkadot dress' to kill RFK

Oswald was CIA, de Mohrenschildt was his handler, he was set up as the fall guy the actual shooter(s) were in the Dal Tex building and on the grassy knoll, but that's obvious

The Watergate burglary was intentionally bungled

The SLA were an intelligence op, there's evidence to suggest Patty Hearst met De Freeze before her kidnapping

Building 7 was a controlled demolition, but I don't think 9/11 was entirely a CIA op, they had prior knowledge of a planned attack, kept it to themselves and the Cheney/Rumsfeld PNAC cabal used the opportunity for a lot of shenanigans e.g. implementing the contemporary surveillance state and covering up major embezzlement, if it wasn't AQ and 9/11 they would have let through something else or done it entirely themselves to create their 'new Pearl Harbour', Israel got wind somehow or another and the 'dancing Israelis' were Mossad observing

COVID and Lyme disease were created in Fort Detrick, probably escaped accidentally but maybe intentionally

[–] companero@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Hugo Chávez was injected with a weaponized cancer-causing virus by the CIA. Just look at everything else that has happened to Venezuela since then. They are ruthless.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

everything fucked up (specific event or general phenomena) that occurred in europe between 1945 to present is directly connected to Operation Gladio.

i have total Gladio brain

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 49 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

Dubai chocolate is a propaganda campaign to make us feel positively toward Dubai and the UAE in general, despite being one of the worst hives of villainy in this quadrant

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago

CIA killed Bruce Lee and his son to keep asian men down

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago

The rise of leftism in the US is being co-opted and will continue to be co-opted.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

One of my pet conspiracies is that Michael Jackson was killed for his rights to The Beatle's music catalog. Because their music suddenly started showing up in commercials and more soon after.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

TrueAnon pretty much reaches this conclusion in their episode about Brett Ratner

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 48 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

If you tell me "The CIA killed ______" I will provisionally believe you no matter what's in the blank

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

The CIA killed Bob Marley by giving him toe cancer.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 36 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The CIA killed the Radio Star

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[–] commiecapybara@hexbear.net 26 points 14 hours ago

Basically this meme

Oswald did 9-11.

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