We've got a bunch of new people now so let's bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?

I'll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being "creepy" through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)

  • Tychoxii [he/him, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Theres those stories about coca cola straightup killing water protectors or big sugar shutting down researchers about carcinogenic and liver damage effects of fructose.

    • skeletorsass [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Definitely true. Tobacco industry did it. Why would other capitalist be different?

    • SootySootySoot [any]
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      10 months ago

      Fructose itself would be wild, but HFCS and all other analogues, one hundo percent.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      10 months ago

      iirc there was a coke bottling plant in South America that hired assassins to kill some labor organizers. Coke claimed plausible deniability.

      Sugar causes enough problems even without being carcinogenic. I personally think the sugar industry should be broken up and dismantled. Even is sugar isn't harmful per se, the sheer amount of it shoved in to food in America is disgusting.