Jet Fuel

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • rbits@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can confirm this is true because the same was true for my mum. She was against the COVID vaccine, but then she started believing that the theories were started by the Chinese government to target people who don’t listen to the authorities.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The one child policy has been abolished a good while before covid.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That doesn’t change the distribution of demographics by itself. Even assuming the birth rate skyrocketed after the nixing of the one child policy, it takes ~20 years before those people are working age.

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  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Chinese government has not persecuted Uighurs, tin foil hat person

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    • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I understand your desire to defend communism.

      But really, how far does an authoritarian regime have to go, while calling itself communist, before you judge them?

      What evidence would change your mind about the CCP?

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  • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My personal conspiracy theory is that the Chinese government did engineer (or at least selectively cultivate) COVID

    The theory I’d believe more is that the U S of A govt or one of its agencies engineered and released it in China.

    China and India are growing economies, with decent populations and a pandemic would seriously delay their growth and help the U S of A keep it’s top place for a bit longer or destroy its competitors.

    The US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on civillians, so them using biological weapons on civillians would not be a big moral barrier for them or a big stretch to think about.

    They probably didn’t think it’d spread this much and their own citizens n president would be idiotic enough to be against vaccines and masks, even when people were dying.

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    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on civillians, so them using biological weapons on civillians would not be a big moral barrier for them or a big stretch to think about.

      That’s such a small stretch that it’s actually a confirmed fact that the US has repeatedly used chemical and biological warfare. Korea and Vietnam are merely two easy examples.

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    • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The theory I’d believe more is that the U S of A govt or one of its agencies engineered and released it in China.

      They did a stupid ass job them, killing the older only gonna help China, and it didn’t even killed enough people to make a difference and it backfired in the US, the conspiracy that China was engineering with it and shit escaped make more sense

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  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Citations needed or all citations point to unreliable sources (Adrian Zenz).

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• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My best friend has an unnatural talent for this sort of thing and really enjoys toying with conspiracy theory nuts.

  When folks start talking about crazy shit, it makes me very anxious and I tend to shut down. Not my buddy. He eggs them on, encourages it, and gets them to say things or agree with things that are even more outlandish than where they conversation started. Things will start at “China invented covid to kill off old people” and somehow end up at “Hillary Clinton paid to have her chromosomes added to the covid vaccines so that DNA evidence can no longer be used against her in the courts”.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love this method and employ it at bars. It’s like gonzo conversationalism.

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  • Mike1576218@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that somewhat how Q-anon started?

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think that basically is yeah. Then, when they saw that it had gathered a following, admins on a #chan who were pro-Trump and think that they’re super smart because they use Haskell took over to pump up fringe support.

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• coffee_whatever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Moon landing was fake!!!” “You still believe the moon is real?”

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I once got on the topic of the moon lending with a creationist co-worker. He said he wasn’t sure, but that if it happened we should be able to see it from satellite pictures. So I said “yeah you can”, pulled it up, and zoomed in on a landing site. You couldn’t see footprints or anything, but you could see the shadow of the flag next to clearly man-made debris

    I showed him exactly what he agreed would be proof in a difficult to fake form, and it just temporarily nudged the needle for him

    Now, I fight conspiracies with the opposite conspiracies.

    Earth is a 4D hypersphere, the earth isn’t hollow, Agatha is just another part of the surface reached by holes

    The elites are hiding all the best vaccines, like the ones that cure cancer

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    • coffee_whatever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I recently watched “Brief history of the Wrong Earths” by Hardcore Sci-Fi, not many of these are well known so you could have so much more ammunition for fooling around like that with people.

      “flat earth? Nah, it’s expanding bro! Oh wait actually it’s 9 hollow earths one in another!”

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• VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dank memes can’t melt steel beams.

  7/11 was a part time job.

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• kromem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fondly remember reading a comment in /r/conspiracy on a post claiming a geologic seismic weapon brought down the towers.

  It just tore into the claims, citing all the reasons this was preposterous bordering on bat shit crazy.

  And then said “and your theory doesn’t address the thermite residue” going on to reiterate their wild theory.

  Was very much a “don’t name your gods” moment that summed up the sub - a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.

  As long as they only focused on generic memes of “do your own research” and “you aren’t being told the truth” they were all on the same page. But as soon as they started naming their own truths, it was every theorist for themselves.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s ego powered with insecurity jetfuel, still can’t melt steel beams tho.^joke^

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    oh shit, is that the problem with leftism

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• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I once tried to get a conspiracy theory going that Flat Earth was a fake conspiracy started by the government to cover up the real conspiracy - that the moon is flat. That’s why we only ever see one side of it and why we were able to land on it. It didn’t take lol.

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jet fuel indeed doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel. Forging temperature, OTOH, no issue.

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t understand, steel is either solid or melted. No in-between. No idea what ^ou mean by forging temperature, swords for example are forged by pouring liquid steel to a form, it’s in so many movies!

    /s obviously.

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  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah let’s ignore the fact that it loses 70% of its strength at like 800 F.

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• Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jet fuel doesn’t need extra tanks of mind control agent, they’re already using leaded fuel

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  • spacesatan@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lead is in avgas for prop planes, not jet fuel.

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    • Liz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We really need to get rid of that.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I started reading these comments I didn’t expect them to be full of actual, unironic conspiracy theories. 🤔

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dinosaurs are a lie created by the wizards to hide the existence of dragons.

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The wizards hunted dragons to extinction because their wings made good spell components and they want to dodge responsibility for it.

      Its ugly, but it’s true.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Memespiracies

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every conspiracy theory should have some way to bet on it.

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I be the bank?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It sounds like you’re conspiring against us, so yes.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lies!

  Everybody knows that the terrorists on the planes aimed them at the floor containing the Illuminati outpost and it was the fire from the cooling liquid for the supercomputers used to mind control everybody in New York that melted the support steel structure.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    cooling liquid would make cold fires idiot, how would that melt steel?

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Actually, if you want to take what I said seriously, cooling liquids just have a high termal capacity and decent or high termal conductivity as well as being at the liquid stage at the temperature range its supposed to work in: a cooling liquid by itself it does not cool anything, it just absorbs heat from the environment on one side of the circuit, carries that heat somewhere else and releases it to the environment there and after that it circulates back to absorb some more heat.

      There are plenty of combustible fluids which fit the criteria and could be used as liquid coolants. Whether it would be wise to use a combustible liquid (worse, one which would burn at a high enough temperature to melt, or at least to soften, steel) that’s an entirelly different matter altogether.

      The idea of a cooling liquid that’s combustible is actually the “it’s absolutelly possible” part of my post and not the “stupid” part.

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like to just be the crazier one. Flat earth? You still believe in an earth, you silly goose egg.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m part of the no-moon society. Flat earth?! How about the fact that the moon is fake!?

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. What first hand evidence do we personally have that the moon is real?

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they add fentanyl to your previous vaccines!

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