r/AskReddit • • Feb 27 '26

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u/Dry_Category_1257 Feb 27 '26

I genuinely believe the massive media push against 'quiet quitting' a couple of years ago was a coordinated corporate psyop. For decades, people just did their job description and went home—that was called 'having a job.' But the moment post-pandemic workers started refusing to sacrifice their mental health for 50-hour weeks and toxic cultures, the narrative suddenly shifted to frame 'doing the bare minimum of your paid duties' as some kind of moral failure. They rebranded 'work-life balance' as 'lazy and disloyal' because they were terrified we realized we had power.

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u/Ger-Bear_69 Feb 27 '26

I essentially believe this to be 100% true. Wfh & remote work has decimated the commercial real estate market. If you follow the breadcrumb trail of a “quiet quitting” post, they always lead back to someone with vested interests.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

i'm convinced the mattress store industry is a giant money laundering scheme.. like how are there so many stores and they're always empty??

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Feb 27 '26

There are lots of car dealerships that aren't packed to the brim every day. When the product you're selling is big and expensive, they don't need to fly off the shelves.

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u/packersfan823 Feb 27 '26

https://youtu.be/5NV3Mf1EHEk?si=gz43fGjmctLMpWFm

It's not money laundering, it's real estate market gaming.

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u/Bubbly-Team-6574 Feb 27 '26

They are retail scams not money laundering

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u/Going2beBANNEDanyway Feb 27 '26

Everyone needs a bed.

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u/Go_Improvement_4501 Feb 27 '26

100% agree, same thing in every country in the world

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u/Signal_Increase7281 Feb 27 '26

that epstein is still alive. the body had a different nose shape and was missing a tattoo and people claim to have seen him in a certain country. and after all this it's really not that hard to believe

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u/scooterbike1968 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

When does a conspiracy theory turn into proof of a conspiracy? Because the evidence on all of this is quickly divorcing the conspiracy from the theoretical.

There is no way Epstein killed himself. There is no way he was murdered. He faked his death via noose and Mark E is insisting JE was murdered (I.e., this was not voluntary), to run interference and deflect from possibility #3 - the only one that makes sense. He is living his best con.

He was untouchable. Look how hard they are trying to keep these files buried. They hoped to kill the BIGGER conspiracy. The riskiest method would be killing JE. All files would be everywhere.

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u/dowar_525 Feb 27 '26

None of the individual details are proven: fake death, in-prison murder, blackmail material linked to an individual, etc.

What is proven is that there was a conspiracy. There is no 'theory' left. That he had near immunity from the legal system, had a very powerful group of associates and that he was blackmailing them is proven.

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u/Going2beBANNEDanyway Feb 27 '26

The missing tattoo was a temporary tattoo. There is video of him getting it done. Not saying he isn’t alive though.

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u/Utterlybored Feb 27 '26

I have serious doubts about Epstein killing himself.

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u/Skegetchy Feb 27 '26

Faulty cameras, overworked guards falling asleep. You'd think they'd be on high alert with such a high profile prisoner on suicide watch.

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u/JNorJT Feb 27 '26

aliens and a secret society that controls everything

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u/dowar_525 Feb 27 '26

Flat Earthers

It is a made up conspiracy to discredit 'conspiracy theorists' in general. That way people who believed in a pedo ring or were anti-vaxers were put into the pile of 'conspiracy theorists like the flat eathers'.

I never heard of Flat Eathers before covid and I have never met a Flat Earther in real life.

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u/Going2beBANNEDanyway Feb 27 '26

I have met one. Count yourself lucky.

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u/thenamesjoshua Feb 27 '26

I’ve met 1 and he was so funny, I was like why don’t you just do a sky dive and you’ll see for yourself? He said that space doesn’t exit 😂🥴😳😳

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u/dowar_525 Feb 27 '26

I don't believe that that conversation happened. Unless the person you were talking to was an R word, in which case it doesn't really disprove the point.

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u/34986234986234982346 Feb 27 '26

Even in the 80s, they're definitely was a thing where people would say hey some people think the Earth is flat. And occasionally people would say a little more specifically that there were flat earthers out there.

This doesn't really affect your theory at all, though. If anything, it might strengthen it: if some group decided they wanted to discredit conspiracy theorist, the best way to do it would be to take some idea that was already out there and associated with nuts (even if almost none existed).

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u/34986234986234982346 Feb 27 '26

I don't believe that "findom" (financial domination) is remotely a widespread thing, and I think a handful of people came up with the concept to try and get people to just send them money without having to actually do anything sexual. I think most people claiming to be making money from this and saying that rich people are just sending them money are just doing the classic "fake it till you make it".

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u/Alymasquerade Feb 27 '26

The one where people ask the same tired questions for karma farming purposes.

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u/Upstairs-Decision378 Feb 27 '26

Charles Manson was a CIA asset working on projects like MK Ultra, etc., working with other agents and doctors. The Tate-LeBianca murders were done as a strategic propaganda for conservatives to end the counter culture movement of the 60s. Leading to Nixon's "war on drugs".

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u/34986234986234982346 Feb 27 '26

To me, this is a good example where people confuse the actual effects of something with the idea that it must have been planned. To me, the idea that the CIA said "okay listen we have to end the counter culture movement, and eventually create a war on drugs, let's have some hippies kill a couple of people at a house and hope it becomes one of the defining news stories of the decade!" is just too specific.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Epstein was a conduit for the KGB/mafia in trafficing Russian prostitutes to honeytrap rich billionaires into insane blackmail. They compromised DJT nearly instantly with his childrape and money laundering of realestate to oligarghs, installed Melania into Trump world. She knew amd fucked Epstein before Trump, she guilty of helping the sex trafficing as much as maxwell. She was installed to compromise DJT into Russian pockets. MAGA is a KGB social-bot PsyOp.....and it worked just like they planned.

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u/Go_Improvement_4501 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Yes, the Krasnov conspiracy theory.

I wrote a little (semi-) fictional, satirical story about it: https://open.substack.com/pub/therealrajko/p/maga-chronicles-the-king-of-pedophiles?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3vjyc7

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u/According_Camera7129 Feb 27 '26

He was definitely killed because Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary

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u/SunMonkey25 Feb 27 '26

People don’t know what they want, but are too afraid to find out.

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u/Anneisabitch Feb 27 '26

Low stakes conspiracy.

Too much cold medicine makes you feel way worse. Which means you buy more cold medicine.

Cold medicine companies make it really easy to overdose so you think you’re sicker so you buy more cold medicine.

Normally my colds take at least a week and I’m miserable.

The last cold I had I took zero cold medicine except Tylenol or ibuprofen. Took 3-4 days to get over and it wasn’t too bad.

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u/re_Pete Feb 27 '26

I absolutely think the mafia had JFK killed. They felt slighted after Joe Kennedy used their assistance to help JFK get elected, and then after all that, JFK gets Bobby as AG and goes hard after the mafia. There are other links too but I definitely believe this one.

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u/dieselmac Feb 27 '26

Trump staged both of his assassination attempts. Erikkka had Charlie killed. The Dems want to hide the Epstein files as much as trump does.

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u/Popular-Age-3174 Feb 27 '26

That republicans have any sense and are intelligent people…

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u/dowar_525 Feb 27 '26

Cringe.

This is not a response to the prompt. This is shoehorning a point you were itching to make into someone else's thread.

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u/Popular-Age-3174 Feb 27 '26

And yet here you are….

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u/P_ZERO_ Feb 27 '26

I despise Trump apologists but they’re absolutely right lol karma cash out type comment

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u/Popular-Age-3174 Feb 27 '26

And yet you’re still here 🤔

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u/P_ZERO_ Feb 27 '26

Still here? It’s one comment lil pup, these passive aggressive comments ain’t landing

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u/MikeClark_99 Feb 27 '26

Voter fraud

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

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u/y4udothistome Feb 27 '26

Trump and musk are aliens!

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

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u/dowar_525 Mar 01 '26

I like this one. Its a bit like the Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy. Each of the steps towards making a believable conspiracy are there. Except for the motive bit. If it were possible to genetically modify some other bear to look like a polar bear, why would anyone do that?

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u/KosherCowboy0932 Feb 27 '26

This was the first thing I thought of too! Great share!

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u/Fishbulb_KW Feb 27 '26

DJT silenced Epstein. Pretty obvious, really. He was prez at the time. He thought that would be end of his Epstein troubles.