Why are Americans so prone to believing in conspiracy theories?

I LOVE the flat earth one. I don't think they really believe that the earth is flat but just pretend and troll the shit out of everyone. It's beautiful.

If you hadn't noticed, all the things you mentioned are the government's doing.
>Teachers are lazy good-for-nothings who can't cut it as researchers, I'll cut your taxes so we can stop paying them as much!
>People who want free healthcare are lazy, we'll tax you less so that they have to get a job!
etc.

Yeah, except no other government spends nearly as much money on their military and other civilian control schemes. Had it not been for the first amendment, we would also be China-tier in terms of speech restriction (we already are really, the FBI routinely detains people who are activists for "dangerous ideas" and the CIA routinely destroys the lives of any activists who go against them). We have proof of things like MKultra mind raping (this created the Unabomber), NSA spying, CIA bringing drugs into the country, FBI detaining controversial intellectuals, Nixon and his tapes, etc.

IIRC 1/2 of Americans believe govt did 9-11.

Fuck off with this reddit shit already you guys keep rehashing in every thread about america. Do you think all of us are rednecks.
that conspiracy is popular everywhere tho

They did. We funded bin Laden back when the Soviets tried to take over Afghanistan. He then used the resources we gave him to train people to form an organization that attacked us.

I love the chemtrail and moon hoax ones
Imagine being this low iq you believe that shit lmao

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brainlets that don't read and only care about Kim Kardashian gossip, nigger music and armegg; also they are doing marijuana/coke/meth all the time

Distrusting the government is not an excuse to believe in every retarded conspiracy theory based on irrational reasoning that comes around.

Stupid people tend to believe in such theories. We have the same problem.

>that conspiracy is popular everywhere tho

Yeah but mostly amongst Ahmeds and Ahmed diasporas

Do you have people actually making money with that thanks to their brainlet audience?

Give me 1 reason why the moon landing is not fake. Honestly I think the US trying to get Russia to spend tons of money on it instead of military is believable.

>8 in 10 americans believe in angels
There is your answer

America's obsession with conspiracies goes back to its founding as a country. It was founded by paranoid religious extremists.

Dylan pls

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Give 1 reason why it's fake.
If you understood Newtonian mechanics, it's totally possible. Plus we have video footage.

I guess so. Why would anyone made up such theories for free?

That helps support the narrative, surely. The whole flat earth, religiosity, lizard people, deep state, etc. etc. stuff, however, is a bit of a step too far.

Alex Jones and David Icke are both multimillionaires from this shit. They are the first two conspiracy theorists to properly monetize.

Most founding fathers were not very religious especially Jefferson
>le ebin clickbait statics

I don't believe Australia is real. All made up by Brits.

No arguments as expected
I have none. I am open to being wrong, I just believe the bankruptcy theory is plausible. Also, I just get annoyed how people act so condescending and confident about how it's true without having a single argument themselves.

We don't have anyone who can compare here, they're amateurs

>Most founding fathers were not very religious especially Jefferson
I'm not talking about the founding fathers, I meant the settlers that formed the brunt of the country.

shitty education
no laws against spreading outright lies
horrible, one-sided journalism (either full MAGA or WAAH HE'S LIKE HITLER)

Just go to the closest church. That's where you will find real professionals.

The arguments are all over the internet user... It's not about what is plausible or not, but what happened or not: Apollo 11 happened, and the proofs of it are countless, because it actually happened, simple as

The burden of proof is on you buddy.

Forgot about them.

Yeah, the Israeli government, kek.

Take a look at what our government and CIA did/does and you'll know why.

No arguments

Here's a big argument:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

No argument

>Brits
I thought we were a Chinese colony.
The world keeps spinning and I can't keep up. (・へ・)

Partially it's poor education in large chunks of the country, but our electoral system also leaves half the people feeling completely disenfranchised at any given time.

It's easier to believe that the country has been stolen from you by some shadowy organization running things from behind the scenes than it is to believe that your politics may only be the second-most popular.

>I thought we were a Chinese colony.
Thats what you Brits wants us to believe You don't fool me.

it's fun

Alex is a treasure you dumb globalist

What is your favorite complement, BRAIN FORCE or ALPHA POWER?

No argument

I'll explain again, sometimes I forgot other people have a much lower IQ than me:

I don't have any arguments, I just get frustrated when I see people (like you, right now) act condescending and confident when they can't name a single argument themselves and I just which theory I found most plausible.

I repeat: no arguments

Like le evil Russians hacking elections with pee-pee tapes conspiracy theories? Or maybe it's a conspiracy theory only if you don't like it?

You should take this to Reddit. they will surely bite.

because of the jews

Remember the "atheist nightmare" banana video that became a meme a few years back? Ray Comfort is a Kiwi, which is far too close to home.
youtube.com/watch?v=BXLqDGL1FSg
Have you heard of that creationist museum in America, the one that was building a giant Noah's Ark? The guy responsible for it is Ken Ham... and Australian.
youtube.com/watch?v=jsf5nQdkO4s

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Can't you see nobody is taking the bait

I remember how it has been meme'd on /b/ back then

High religiosity

鋭いなぁ

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>creationist museum
AWESOME!

COUNTRIES WITH SHIT EDUCATION SYSTEMS HAVE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE ANYTHING

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>just trust the government
Would you Euros say that if your country had the CIA?

It cost around 100 million USD and received free government land, over 18 million in tax incentives, a 10 million dollar public road construction project to the Ark thingo as well as millions in funding from the local government to help cover the costs. The tax payer money was justified as promoting "tourism". Makes you think.

I don't even trust myself. But i'm not going to believe the weird stories that Alex Jones yells at me.

>flat earth
insanity
>religiosity
?
>lizard people
insanity
>deep state
fact

based binland and borkland

It's like you don't even want to put up a fight against the Globalists.

Religiosity is a sign of intellectual retardation and often mental illness.

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We have the eurocrats

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So what water Finns drink?

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Looks like this citation is working for flat earthers. They are pretty noticeable now, and while many laugh at them, many also are seriously arguing with them. So it's a stage two-and-a-half.

>believing in conspiracy theories?
It’s super fun.
Nobody couldn’t refrain from it.

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They want to feel intelligent by supposedly knowing something the rest of the sheeple don’t.

We're very prone to believing in them as well, due to a natural distrust for the authorities.

That's depressing

Yeah it's all Americans

spectator.sme.sk/c/20827018/more-than-50-percent-of-slovaks-believe-in-conspiracy-theories.html

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/01/conspiracy-theories-social-malaise-fake-news-exclusion

Google flat Earth. A lot of the cunts on YouTube are British.

youtu.be/DPRJzNc876A

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>other

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>IIRC 1/2 of Americans believe govt did 9-11.
It's 18%, less than many other countries

Germans and Mexicans are Ahmeds?

No they are Mehmets

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11-9 was an outside job

Criticism and doubt is fine, but it has to be substantiated. An overwhelming majority of conspiracies are half-truths, unfounded and primordial.

>You are brainwashed everyday by your society
which is largely manipulated by the government.
as long as we're making suggestions, maybe you should start worrying more about your own society and government.

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Unironically yes.

heh

fpbp

It's not your government that brainwashes you, it's the corporations that rule your society. Your government is in their pockets.

America was made accessible with muscles, not with the brain.
Therefore, Americans consider anything that exceeds the strength of their muscles and their underdeveloped brains to be wrong - and create a false reality that is more accessible and comprehensible to them.
In addition, the early immigrants were outcasts, Christian Taliban, who believed in all sorts of nonsense anyway.

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>It's not your government that brainwashes you, it's the corporations that rule your society. Your government is in their pockets.
They're the same thing

True. I mean, there's plenty of stupid shit in conspiracy theories, but if our intelligence agency pulled shit like MKUltra, I'd never trust any state organ again.

MKUltra isn't even the worse of it.

>Corporation: I'll pay you to help me manipulate society.
>Government: Okay.
What's your point.

Do I even want to know?
I just read articles about the connection between female """hysteria""" and lobotomy treatment, as well as its use on homosexuals, and my faith in Man is really low right now.

Americans a stupid for believing all the propaganda our government feeds us. Also
Americans are stupid for questioning all the propaganda our government feeds us.

Does that about sum it up?

Questioning the governement isn't the problem, believing all sort of tinfoil shit is

Yeah. Unfortunately it can be easy to get sucked into the tinfoil stuff when you realize you’ve been manipulated for a large portion of your life.

I distinctly remember people laughing at me when I didn't want to discuss illegal stuff (drugs/underage drinking) on the phone pre 9/11

Guess who shut the hell up several years later?

We live under a government of spooks harboring the CIA. It's not difficult to think a couple wacky things, [spoiler]especially when the government has been behind shit like testing LSD on unsuspecting civilians and diseases on isolated towns.[/spoiler]

Good post

Most people who watch him are just watching because he's an entertaining character, not because they believe what he's peddling.