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Ashton Forbes, a healthcare IT consultant turned UFO/UAP proponent, gained attention for promoting videos claiming Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared due to alien interference, despite evidence debunking the footage. Later, Forbes fell victim to a $3,000 scam involving fake evidence supporting his beliefs, but continued to assert a conspiracy against him.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 53 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think it is funny, cospiracy nuts allways claim to have and open mind, but they tend to be increadibly close minded when talking about facts.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Back on r/conspiracy it was always interesting how many of them were also okay with Nazis and sources like The Daily Stormer, it was no surprise when that sub basically became the second r/the_donald.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I honestly feel that was some sort of psyop…. That sub changed so quick to being basically an altright cesspool. Many “conspiracy” or related subs did that around the same time in fact. This seems like… a conspiracy.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean if you believe the Ruzzian election interference angle, because that view on the 2016 election has shown evidence of being so much more than just Ruzzia participating, you would absolutely see that it was basically a psyop, they flooded Reddit, and the rest of social media, with conspiracies, disinformation, and propaganda, and we've been all fucked up ever since, now I and many Americans have family we can't even talk to because they've lost their fucking minds and want Donald Trump to become America's dictator.

It was definitely a conspiracy, and a psyop, yet all of the conspiracy theorists in their blind biases will hold their ears and close their eyes and blame Killery Clinton and the Jews for it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I wish they could attach themselves to a good conspiracy theory like this one.

That's just a False-Flag Narrative spread by the Left to obscure the Truth

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Conspiracy nuts are verifiably one of the easiest groups to manipulate. You convince them you are one of them and you can make them do/believe anything you want. Just say it with a straight face and they'll make it a core belief they'll die for.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s frustrating that the UAP scene is infested with grifters.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Take away the grifters and the idiots, and there is no UAP scene

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

It makes sense though, doesn’t it? A community of people that refute reality in favor of what they want to believe, gets taken by people willing to use that against them?

Play stupid games…

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

God I wish Rebecca Watson (and all the other good YouTubers for that matter) would just dual release her content as audio podcasts.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You can download the audio portion of YouTube videos. The website TubeRipper is one such option.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

That's always NewPipe on android too. ReVanced integration makes it a breeze.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If you're at all comfortable with your PC's command line, it's trivial to download just the audio from YouTube video using the yt-dlp program.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Well deserved.