How the fuck has the ’15 minute city’ become a widespread conspiracy. Absolutely baffling.
Actorvists are contractually obliged to ONLY address conspiracy theories and not their bosses corruption and malignancy.
There’s only so many times you can be lied to and screwed over before you start to assume that everything anyone says is bullshit
WEFs own website and various speeches – “you will own nothing and be happy. We want a Great Reset”.
Also WEF and various WEF affiliated politicians – “we didn’t actually mean it, even though it’s a stated aim. You are conspiracy theorists”
Conspiracy theories emerge when people do not want to do the heavy lifting of going into the fine grain of policies and to instead take a short cut and imaging maleficious motivation by ones political opponents. To a degree we all do it. It’s just so much easier.
You simply assume a thing is happening because people you don’t like are plotting and get some people to agree with you.
The internet distills people into self curated information bubbles where the steady stream of self congratulatory and easy to digest conspiracies where you don’t need to do the heavy lifting of detail or assuming good faith on the behalf of your political opponents.
Well when you have empty headline posts like this and letters coming from MP’s, it looks a little suspicious.
A trend ive noticed recently is the frequent assertion that things are “Corrupt”. Housing development? Developer paid a bribe. Bus contract? Arriva paid a bribe etc. It immediately kills any actual discussion because one side has immediately accused the other of a very serious criminal act with absolutely no proof.
But then in turn no-one views “parish council denied planning permission to maintain property prices” as an act of corruption, even though it very clearly is.
Basically sometimes the government makes decisions you don’t like, and that’s not down to bribes.
It probably doesn’t help that we don’t call people out for believing stupid shit.
How is it acceptable to believe in shit like ghosts, horoscopes, conspiracy theories, and god in the 21st century? We even have state television programmes about this shit. How mental is that?
Maybe instead of rolling our eyes when Janet tells us that she went to see a psychic and got a message from her late cat, we should tell her straight.
Oh really, Janet? You actually paid a woman who smells like a hoover bag and has tea stains on her knickers £100 to tell you lies? Sort yourself out you stupid cunt.
I work in a senior role related to planning and public-private development.
I get shite from the 15 min city crowd and I’m apparently owed a lot of brown envelopes. Apparently I’ve built a lot of student flats too.
The word ‘theory’ is misleading but that’s because the lizard people want you to think the line taken is merely unproven, not that it’s necessarily untrue.
Conspiracy lies are not theories which serve as a recruiting tool for community builders rather than anything based in rationale. The community base is manipulated therefore, by definition.
They are closer to religious dogma than analytics. They are easy to float and difficult to disprove, by design. Don’t look for reasons, look for connections – notice who is hooked in.
People become vulnerable to conspiracy theories because of societal failings and our foundational myths – we prime people to fall for this stuff.
We tell them to trust mainstream media, but they’re not stupid and they know it’s owned by the wealthy, and operated in the interests of its owners. We tell them that we live in a meritocracy and that hard work pays off, yet one only has to remember our previous PM (and many of our politicians in general) to see the obvious lie in the former; for the latter, one merely has to take note of how many people in full time employement are struggling just to get by. We tell them that Britain is one of the richest countries in the world, while the queues at the foodbank grow ever longer.
Is it any wonder that people get sucked into these conspiracy theories that at least purport to explain this dissonance?
The worst, most insidious thing about conspiracy theories is that every time they come true they become harder and harder to deny.
Right wing politics needs an enemy to blame everything bad on, and in the absense of one they will just make one up.
It’s right to question things, by labelling any divergence from what is deemed as acceptable thought as a conspiracy theory is a great way to deflect any accusations or unwanted attention.
Global, global politics! The US is the absolute worst, a fucking circus of paranoia and lunacy.
Social media and the mentally ill, not a good combo.
Those dumb conspiracies.
Like COVID starting in a lab.
Like gangs of men grooming kids and police and councils conspiring to cover it up.
Like those weapons of mass destruction sadam had.
Like Child abuse running rampant in the entertainment industry and being hidden by the BBC.
The British government exposing it’s population to secret germ warfare tests during the cold war.
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How the fuck has the ’15 minute city’ become a widespread conspiracy. Absolutely baffling.
Actorvists are contractually obliged to ONLY address conspiracy theories and not their bosses corruption and malignancy.
There’s only so many times you can be lied to and screwed over before you start to assume that everything anyone says is bullshit
WEFs own website and various speeches – “you will own nothing and be happy. We want a Great Reset”.
Also WEF and various WEF affiliated politicians – “we didn’t actually mean it, even though it’s a stated aim. You are conspiracy theorists”
Conspiracy theories emerge when people do not want to do the heavy lifting of going into the fine grain of policies and to instead take a short cut and imaging maleficious motivation by ones political opponents. To a degree we all do it. It’s just so much easier.
You simply assume a thing is happening because people you don’t like are plotting and get some people to agree with you.
The internet distills people into self curated information bubbles where the steady stream of self congratulatory and easy to digest conspiracies where you don’t need to do the heavy lifting of detail or assuming good faith on the behalf of your political opponents.
Well when you have empty headline posts like this and letters coming from MP’s, it looks a little suspicious.
A trend ive noticed recently is the frequent assertion that things are “Corrupt”. Housing development? Developer paid a bribe. Bus contract? Arriva paid a bribe etc. It immediately kills any actual discussion because one side has immediately accused the other of a very serious criminal act with absolutely no proof.
But then in turn no-one views “parish council denied planning permission to maintain property prices” as an act of corruption, even though it very clearly is.
Basically sometimes the government makes decisions you don’t like, and that’s not down to bribes.
It probably doesn’t help that we don’t call people out for believing stupid shit.
How is it acceptable to believe in shit like ghosts, horoscopes, conspiracy theories, and god in the 21st century? We even have state television programmes about this shit. How mental is that?
Maybe instead of rolling our eyes when Janet tells us that she went to see a psychic and got a message from her late cat, we should tell her straight.
Oh really, Janet? You actually paid a woman who smells like a hoover bag and has tea stains on her knickers £100 to tell you lies? Sort yourself out you stupid cunt.
I work in a senior role related to planning and public-private development.
I get shite from the 15 min city crowd and I’m apparently owed a lot of brown envelopes. Apparently I’ve built a lot of student flats too.
The word ‘theory’ is misleading but that’s because the lizard people want you to think the line taken is merely unproven, not that it’s necessarily untrue.
Conspiracy lies are not theories which serve as a recruiting tool for community builders rather than anything based in rationale. The community base is manipulated therefore, by definition.
They are closer to religious dogma than analytics. They are easy to float and difficult to disprove, by design. Don’t look for reasons, look for connections – notice who is hooked in.
People become vulnerable to conspiracy theories because of societal failings and our foundational myths – we prime people to fall for this stuff.
We tell them to trust mainstream media, but they’re not stupid and they know it’s owned by the wealthy, and operated in the interests of its owners. We tell them that we live in a meritocracy and that hard work pays off, yet one only has to remember our previous PM (and many of our politicians in general) to see the obvious lie in the former; for the latter, one merely has to take note of how many people in full time employement are struggling just to get by. We tell them that Britain is one of the richest countries in the world, while the queues at the foodbank grow ever longer.
Is it any wonder that people get sucked into these conspiracy theories that at least purport to explain this dissonance?
The worst, most insidious thing about conspiracy theories is that every time they come true they become harder and harder to deny.
Right wing politics needs an enemy to blame everything bad on, and in the absense of one they will just make one up.
It’s right to question things, by labelling any divergence from what is deemed as acceptable thought as a conspiracy theory is a great way to deflect any accusations or unwanted attention.
Global, global politics! The US is the absolute worst, a fucking circus of paranoia and lunacy.
Social media and the mentally ill, not a good combo.
Those dumb conspiracies.
Like COVID starting in a lab.
Like gangs of men grooming kids and police and councils conspiring to cover it up.
Like those weapons of mass destruction sadam had.
Like Child abuse running rampant in the entertainment industry and being hidden by the BBC.
The British government exposing it’s population to secret germ warfare tests during the cold war.
Imagine believing any of that.