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#conspiracytheories

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Levka

#UFOs #TulsiGabbard #ConspiracyTheories

"Tulsi Gabbard Goes Full ‘X-Files’ With New Conspiracy Theory

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard believes aliens might exist—and is hinting there is 'classified' material to back her up supposition.

Gabbard, who oversees 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, was asked whether 'there could be aliens' on the New York Post podcast 'Pod Force One.' 'I have my own views and opinions,' she said. 'In this role, I have to be careful with what I share.'

archive.is/i7RCy#selection-116

We Must Strike

The lovechild of #Trump and #Musk's torrid friendship-of-convenience, #DOGE was never about eliminating waste: Instead it was a fig leaf for the illegal slaughter of Congressionally mandated programs. But of course, DOGE managed to flush billions of #AmericanTaxPayer's dollars down the toilet in the process.
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DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater: Wasted $21.7 Billion While Destroying Life-Saving Programs Based On #ConspiracyTheories | Techdirt techdirt.com/2025/08/08/doges-

Techdirt · DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater: Wasted $21.7 Billion While Destroying Life-Saving Programs Based On Conspiracy TheoriesWe’ve talked plenty about how Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) was always more about performative cruelty than actual efficiency. But a new Senate report reveals…
#uspol#ElonMuskIsStupid
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"_Together, these studies, using diverse research designs, provide evidence that economic hardship and anomie may contribute to anti-immigrant sentiment, with conspiracy beliefs potentially mediating these relationships._"

Hattersley, M., Skipper, Y., Douglas, K.M. and Jolley, D. (2025), The Interplay Between Economic Hardship, Anomie, and Conspiracy Beliefs in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55: 600-623. doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70002.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Anomie #Immigration #Migration #ConspiracyTheories #Economics #Academia #Academics @psychology

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Levka

#CIA #MindControl #ConspiracyTheories #history

"This Secret CIA Program Sounds Like a Conspiracy Theory. Every Wild Detail Is 100% True.

No one inside the agency’s fake brothel knew they were being watched—or that their drinks had been laced.

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency went in a wildly different direction: renting a San Francisco apartment, cloaking it in red velvet curtains, hiring sex workers, and secretly drugging men with LSD to see what secrets they might spill.

What could possibly go wrong besides … well, just about everything?"

popularmechanics.com/military/

Popular Mechanics · This Secret CIA Program Sounds Like a Conspiracy Theory. Every Wild Detail Is 100% True.By Popular Mechanics Editors
Levka

#ConspiracyTheories

"Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results. For instance, some astronomers have suggested that our solar system has an extra planet, way beyond the demoted Pluto, whose effects explain certain other celestial movements. And modern cosmology assumes a vast invisible substance, so-called dark matter, whose hypothesized existence makes sense out of gravitational effects that would be otherwise mysterious.

Conspiracy theories, lately so influential in American debates, can be understood as the political equivalent of dark-matter theories. They emerge in situations where some movement or action seems unlikely or bizarre — unless you can posit some unseen element in the story, some hidden force exerting influence. 'Something is missing from the data' is not just a researcher’s reaction to a scientific mystery. It’s also a citizen’s response to developments that don’t seem to quite make sense."

archive.ph/Si1Nb#ConspiracyThe

"Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results. For instance, some astronomers have suggested that our solar system has an extra planet, way beyond the demoted Pluto, whose effects explain certain other celestial movements. And modern cosmology assumes a vast invisible substance, so-called dark matter, whose hypothesized existence makes sense out of gravitational effects that would be otherwise mysterious.

Conspiracy theories, lately so influential in American debates, can be understood as the political equivalent of dark-matter theories. They emerge in situations where some movement or action seems unlikely or bizarre — unless you can posit some unseen element in the story, some hidden force exerting influence. 'Something is missing from the data' is not just a researcher’s reaction to a scientific mystery. It’s also a citizen’s response to developments that don’t seem to quite make sense."

archive.ph/Si1Nb

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

insidestory.org.au/the-stories

But Bogle and Wilson are not simply documenting an ideological carnival bedecked with tinfoil-hatted misfits as though they are the aberrational individuals. They are asking what these conspiratorial narratives about vaccines, stolen sovereignty, paedophile rings and false-flag events tell us about contemporary life in Australia.

Because it is a diagnosis of the political body, one of Conspiracy Nation’s strengths is its intersectional reading of conspiracy cultures. Bogle and Wilson show how white identity — unsteady, reframed and sometimes radicalised — sits at the centre of many conspiracy theories in Australia.

Inside Story · The stories we tell about ourselves • Stephen YoungWhat drives conspiracy theories?
#credulousfools#morons#RWNJs
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Narcissistic abuse awareness

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Signs of narcissism my abuser displayed.

5. #ConspiracyTheories

There is projection. Some narcissists, being manipulative themselves, may assume others are also manipulative.

Narcissists are notably resistant to debunking efforts. They perceive challenges to their conspiracy theories and other beliefs as personal attacks, Then, they double down on their beliefs and try to attack the person trying to debunk them.

#narcissist#NarcissistLogic#MalignantNarcissist
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Narcissistic abuse awareness

Signs of narcissism my abuser displayed.

5. Makes and believes in conspiracy theories.

Believing in conspiracy theories fulfills narcissists' psychological needs of feeling special, unique and superior to others. It gives them a sense that they possess secret knowledge unavailable to most.

Narcissists often exhibit trust issues and paranoia. These traits foster beliefs in hidden plots or malevolent forces at work.

#narcissism#narcissists#conspiracytheories
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