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6ae70bbb | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 This is the exact reason I can’t get on board with most conspiracies. Thousands of people involved and not one gets drunk and spills the beans? Not likely
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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This will imply extremely well organized and well ran organization, which is not what any government agency is or can be 😂
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Low Information Voter | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If a tree falls in a forest, does it really make a sound?

If beans are spilled in a suburban loungeroom, is a conspiracy really revealed to the world?

"Fake Moon Landing" and "Fake Climate Change" are implausible because they are so high-profile, public and trans-national, and "Chemtrails" because burning jet fuel in air is so violently destructive of chemistry.

None of those are implausible purely on the scale required. 

- Katyn Forest was real. 
- Treblinka was real. 
- Nuclear Winter was not real. 
- Eating carrots does not help you see at night (but it was a good cover for the deployment of radar).