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I was today years old when I heard about the 15-minute city conspiracy theory on NPR. It's quite a thing that after 30 years of continual assaults on reason like the ozone layer, George Bush, Iraq, global warming, Alaska Barbie, "I'm Not A Witch", Jim Inhofe, Trump, COVID & Giuliani - Republicans are still capable of surprising me with their stupidity.
I was driving to a farm when I heard about that. Imagine being scared that public transit is going to make getting place to place harder
Democrats are just as deep in this stupidity. Humans are stupid ,the question is do you have the guts to admit this includes you.
What are the liberal conspiracies? Only one that comes to mind is the Bernie being screwed over by the DNC thing. (and extensions from there like you should vote for Trump to piss of DNC or third party).
On the far left you'll get a lot of conspiracies around the CIA thwarting all attempts at socialism. On the moderate liberal side you'll get theories on Russia. Both of these have a lot more basis in reality then republican ones, but still every political movement has a boogie man and a set of people who will blame all the worlds problems in them.
I'm not sure how many of those can truly be called conspiracies, with the Freedom of Information act, we actually have a pretty significant amount of evidence that the CIA absolutely destabilizes countries that start gravitating toward socialism and replace their leaders with capitalist friendly ones. The CIA backed coup of Salvador Allende in Chili is just one example.
Johnny Harris did a good video on the history of the rest..
The original 9/11
thing is the moderate right is considered left now.
The thing is, the CIA does. We get the proof declassified decades later