35 Times Confusion About Everyday Things Turned People Into Amateur Conspiracy Theorists

Being afraid of 5G because "They're building more towers than 4G, there must be some nefarious reason!"

It doesn't pass through walls as well, that's... that's why they're building more towers. Also means that even if *everything* else is true, you should be... less afraid of 5G than 4G.

I know someone who believes social security is like their own personal savings account for retirement. I’ve tried explaining it, but the reality sounds too much like “socialism” to them.

People who think medical teams stop CPR/talk patients into going hospice or DNR because they’re desperate for the patient’s organs.

I was told by a big brained individual that windmills change the direction of the wind, and that its causing "massive damage".


Another dolt told me that "they" are shooting missiles into clouds to change the weather.  Could not wrestle the identity of "they" out of him for the life of me.


My job involves customer service. .

I had a coworker, (who was a former Scientologist) while working retail whisper to me that she always wondered why the receipt paper would need replacing in the receipt printers, but no ink. Without a word, I took out some receipt paper and ran it under hot water and showed her how the heat made the paper turned dark, no ink needed.
Derp.

I got into an argument over vaccines with a guy who is studying to be a doctor. I was on the side of vaccines being good...and I was so exasperated.

I know a couple that drink a tablespoon of diluted bleach every day because Trump said we need "something like bleach" during covid.

Edit: equal parts water and bleach. They use a fancy dark glass bottle.

Someone told me that modern cars crumpling in accidents was obviously planned obsolescence, older cars were more protective because of their solid construction and he would survive 10/10 in an old pickup, and would d*e if he was in a modern car.

Water witching, "we had our property witched and when they dug the well they hit water after 50 feet!" Great but if you drilled 20 feet north you'd likely have the same results.

I work for an ISP. Someone told me that 5G home Internet is going to put my company out of business. I asked him who he thought provided service to the towers his 5G modem is connecting to.

One about how there’s not enough beef produced to make all the hamburgers Americans eat, and that they must be cut with something, probably bugs. A few places some irl, I have heard this.

I had a very early handheld GPS. Given the coordinates of your destination, all you would get was the distance and the heading.

At the time, the GPS signal was scrambled. It would take a while to get a fix on your current position, but after that, it was accurate enough (+/-100 metres or yards) that I could fly my ultralight to my destination.

I was showing it my father outside his house, and his neighbour, whom I knew was a nut, came over to see. He then launched into conspiracy mode, telling me that it didn’t matter that the signal was scrambled, because any missile using it would still hit its target. So what if it was off by 100 metres?! What were they really hiding?!

Unfortunately for him, I had recently read up on the mathematics behind the scrambling. I told him that the scrambling was a function of speed. If the missile was going to walk or drive to its destination, sure, the target would be hit, but at supersonic speed the missile couldn’t adjust fast enough and wasn’t going to miss my 100 metres, it was going to miss by 100 kilometres.

His only answer was a crestfallen, “Oh.”

That was the day I learned that conspiracy theorists REALLY don’t k****d simple, obvious explanations.

I know a few people who don't believe the moon landing was real because they don't think we had the technology to do so then. To be fair to them, they were alive in 1969 and grew up super poor in a very rural town, so I get it. They don't believe in any other conspiracy theories and aren't crazy about it so it feels weird to lump them in with the other conspiracy theoriests.

My mom believes the NESARA/GESARA c**p. She genuinely believes Dongle Dump is a sweet old man who just loves his country so much... and also rescued mole children.

I've tried explaining 4chan, I've tried explaining the origins. I've tried being patient, but she just isn't getting the simple fact that this is all a conspiracy that snowballed and Dump is never going to just *give away* money and forgive all debt.

She's going to retire with almost nothing >_>.

Twin towers.