• PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml
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    The Earth is flat and the real reason Titanic sunk was because it fell off the edge. The submarine went too close to the edge and the waterfall flowing off the side caused the submarine to drift over the edge of the world and fall off.

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    Some government knows where the sub is, but they can’t tell anyone to not show their actual surveillance capabilites.

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      That doesn’t sound that far fetched at all. I bet US has sacrificed thousands of Ukrainian soldier’s lives just not to disclose their valuable secret reconnaissance capabilities. What difference would four more people in a submarine do to change their mind?

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    There is no limit to how dumb these conspiracy theories can get. It would not surprise me if Fox News said that the democrats sabotaged the submersible to prevent them from bringing back Hillary’s emails that had been hidden on the wreck of the Titanic.

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      Are you kidding me, here in the bible belt this theory is already widely accepted as a hard fact /s

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    I browsed 4chan /x/ earlier today, so here’s where they are…

    The obvious one relates to the fact that founding members of the Federal Reserve were on the Titanic, and it was intentionally sunk to (something incoherent about economics). The submarine was sunk for similar reasons.

    The Titanic didn’t sink, but it was some other vessel, and They had to sink the submarine so the truth wouldn’t get out.

    There are deep ocean aliens, and the sub had to sink to conceal that fact.

    Those are the ones I could remember. In any case, it’s always the Jews and the CIA.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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      The Titanic being swapped out for a different ship is a persistent one that’s been around for a while

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        Do you know what the deal is with that? I couldn’t figure it out, and one of the problems with /x/ is that they assume you already know what’s going on with their conspiracies.

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          So the swap conspiracy is yhat the Titanic had a twin sister ship, i think it was like yhe olimpia or something like that. The conspiracy, iirc, is that the sister ship wasnt made completely vto the same “unsinkable” standards as the Titanic. But, the titanic wasnt going to be completed in time so they changed the names and no one would he the wise. I think another part of yhis is yhat yhe twin ship was around for quite a while and i believe rammed a german uboat in ww1 and so people think that was really the unsinkable one. I could be wrong a bout a number of these points though. It’s been a minute since I’m read about that conspiracy theory and im to lazy to fact checky self.

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            That makes at least a little bit more sense… Not to imply it makes sense, it just makes a little bit more sense.

            I remembered after posting, the children of 4chan were implying the fake sinking thing was some sort of insurance fraud. But that only works if you also take the ship out of service, since otherwise the insurance company will be left wondering, well where did this other ship come from?

            But this is one thing at the heart of conspiracy theories: they don’t actually think about how the world works. It’s like, one of the big conspiracies on 4chan at the moment is ESG—environment, social, and corporate governance scores in investing. They think that this is a social engineering effort, as though Blackrock cares about anything other than money.

            If you’re curious what ESG is really about, it’s a con to make stock-buying more palatable for millennials. But since the children of 4chan don’t know anything about anything, it’s gotta be Jewish social engineering.

  • Jim@lemm.ee
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    That they weren’t going down to see the Titanic at all. They were really out searching for Atlantis and got caught in a battle with Namor, who obviously crushed their submarine like a soda can.

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    The submarine is staying down there because the pilot knows the Canadian wildfires are going to set the atmosphere on fire. They need to outlast the fire and repopulate the earth with the DNA they found on silverware from Titanic survivors.

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    Somewhere on the ocean floor would be a great place to hide Hunter Biden’s laptop…

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    The missing Titanic submarine was actually a covert operation by Russian President Vladimir Putin to sabotage the Ukrainian gas pipeline project that was being funded by Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, who were on board the sub. Putin hired French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who had previously explored the Titanic wreck, to plant explosives on the pipeline that runs near the Titanic site. However, the plan went wrong when British billionaire Hamish Harding, who had recently traveled to space with Jeff Bezos, discovered the plot and tried to stop it. A fight ensued inside the sub, causing it to lose contact with the surface and sink deeper into the ocean. The other passenger, Stockton Rush, founder of OceanGate Expeditions, was an innocent bystander who got caught in the crossfire. The sub is now lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, with all five passengers either dead or waiting for a miracle rescue.

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