If we just focused on maximizing profits, it would efficiently allocate all the resources among the people. And if this system does cause inequalities, then it must be coming externally from outside the system.
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Not really, because "efficiently" here would include disenfranchisement, euthanasia and murder. Which must be disadvantageous if on the lower levels, in DNA, evolution has went past such in favor of a more complex system than preserves information, even if in specific iterations that information being activated makes the organism weaker.
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The moon is flat - flat moon theory
The Post Office is secretly being controlled by the US Government. If you look at the actual laws of the US it allows the President to appoint someone called the Postmaster General who's in charge of the whole thing.
I think it would be a pretty good prank to bring this up in a "favorite crazy conspiracy theory" conversation where all but one participant agrees that it's a baseless conspiracy theory and see if the one other person insists that the Postmaster General Theory is real, or goes along with the crowd. But I really don't think my friends are coordinated enough to pull it off.
I think it's possible that Robert Trump, Donald Trump's younger brother, was an early victim of COVID. He died suddenly and was "very ill" but no specific cause was ever mentioned AFAIK. I think this was covered up because it was politically inconvenient for his brother.
I have nothing to really base it on except the timing and reaction was suspect.
Trunp and Putin have an affair.
Like, they kiss when nobody's lookin?
Maybe Orban watches, too.
Oh oh I got one. Something to do with like Epstein wanted some property. He invited Trump to view it and shared his opinion. Instead, Trump bought the property. But it gets even better, supposedly he bought with Russian money.
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I love the idea of aliens building the pyramids. But I know it was probably just slaves or tradespeople or whatever.
Egyptian history is full of wild conspiracy theories
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The Anti-vax movement was started and funded by Big Pharma, because there is more money to be made in treating a disease than there is in preventing it.
You're half right. Andrew Wakefield, the father of modern anti-vaccine sentiment, wrote a bogus study with horrible methodology against the MMR vaccine due to a desire to sell separate alternative measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. Brian Deer explains it best in his 2004 documentary "MMR: What They Didn't Tell You".
Neo-nazis are falling for Hollywood Propaganda and halming white nationalist causes, acting the way nazis are depicted in films like American History X, making them repugnant to normies
I've seen some race realists try and talk people down from the nazi flag waving thing because "it hurts the cause"
if only normal people thought neo-nazis were repugnant
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oh there's a conspiracy that a portugese caravel was shipwrecked off the Victorian coast 'pre colonisation', and the freemasons are covering it up, for some reason, I met an old codger who was convinced the freemasons were following him because he was close to finding the wreck.
Just imagine a crusty old guy coming up to another crusty old guy in a country supermarket telling him to be careful, some real indiana jones type shit
the nsa funds each and every open source projects for example signal