paulfromcamden
Baffled
I've said it before, but you can usually bet that if someone is into one conspiracy theory then they're into them all. For instance I've never encountered someone who thinks the moon landings were all fake but also completely believes the official 9/11 sequence of events.
I'm not sure what it is about them but everything is a conspiracy or false flag event. One of the artists at the tattoo studio I use is an absolute full blown crank, right back to Nikola Tesla having invented free energy but it all being suppressed by shady global/US elites, all the COVID and anti Vax nuttery, the WEF, WHO etc etc. There's literally nothing that he doesn't believe is some sort of cover up or plot and he never shuts up about it.
It's a weird one. As a young man I was very interested in UFOs and general Fortean Times type unexplained weirdness. But it was all good fun and taken with a very large pinch of salt.
Now it seems a large proportion of the US population believe the country is run by a secret cabal of Satanic child molesters who meet up in the basement under a pizza joint...
I'm not sure what changed but I guess the interwebs is in there somewhere.