The Awesome and Cool Poll Thread - Poll #131: Would you pay more taxes if it meant receiving a pension when you retire?

[Greengoop]

How about how the pyramids were built about 10000 years ago and the Egyptians building it is simply mythology?

[Rsandee]

How about how the pyramids were built about 10000 years ago and the Egyptians building it is simply mythology?

Could be! Honestly I think humans have been around for 12k years +, at least according to the Turkish ruins of Göbekli Tepe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
What I mean is that Cleopatra is closer to us than to the Bronze Age in terms of chronology. Perhaps the Egyptians just adopted the pyramids, considering who knows what's still out there.

Sceptic me would at least say all the pyramids we know of were built by the Egyptians, but tinfoil hat me likes to toy around with these theories.

[Greengoop]

Yeah, I thought that they renovated and repurposed the pyramids

[Rsandee]

There's this German conspiracy theory about the city of Bielefeld not existing and it actually just being a CIA blacksite. If you ever go there and you think you're in Bielefeld, you're actually not in Bielefeld and all the other people living there are actually just actors lulling you into a false sense of security that you're actually in the city.

[Greengoop]

Okay, I’m definitely looking this one up

[EdgyRabbid]

No i dont. Im too focused on fiction to care about real life!

[Greengoop]

No i dont. Im too focused on fiction to care about real life!

What about the Murfy - Magician one?

[EdgyRabbid]

Thats a joke. Plus i dont feel like being reminded of thw war right now.

[Greengoop]

Thats a joke. Plus i dont feel like being reminded of thw war right now.

Ok, that’s fair enough.

[The Jonster]

Did you disable that account? I was gonna log into it sometime just to troll you

Somehow I missed this earlier but even as a joke that’s not funny in the slightest given your history with alternate accounts.

[PluMGMK]

An interesting conspiracy theory I came across some time ago in the comments section of the Guardian, of all places: neoliberalism arose around the time the science around climate change started to become clear (cf. the internal Exxon report). So the true purpose of the neoliberal project was to amass enough wealth for the oligarchs to have their bunkers and weather climate breakdown, while everyone else is left to fend for themselves.

I don't think I believe it though, since I reckon wishful thinking can explain most of the inaction on climate change, like other things…

[DaveRattlehead]

Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of bunker in Antarctica with food stored in it?

[Pirez]

You mean a scientific research base?

[DaveRattlehead]

It's supposed to be a research base, but conspiracy theories say this was built for rich people by the time climate change kills us all

One of the conspiracy theories I believe the most is a local case that happened here in Spain many years ago. Apparently, there's a specific restaurant located in the Mediterranean coast in which politicians and important people organized pedo rituals. This theory emerged with the Alcàsser girls crime, because the official version reported by the police wasn't concordant with the autopsy of the girls. Interestingly, by the time Madelein's parents were doing their own investigation, their private detective was suspicious of a pedo organization located around this zone. The corruption of these politicians during those years, the testimony of several kids and the fact of the people living in that specific city not wanting to talk too much about that restaurant (and advicing not to ask about that) give more than enough reasons to believe that this theory may be real.

[dr_st]

Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of bunker in Antarctica with food stored in it?

Stay out of my pickled herring supplies!!!

[Greengoop]

How about for the next poll: what is your favourite Souls game? (Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, Elden Ring)

[DaveRattlehead]

Another potential conspiracy theory from a few days ago... Jeffrey Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has commited suicide recently. She stated a few years ago that she has never thought about killing herself, and if that happened, that would mean someone killed her. Not gonna lie, this sounds... Weird

How about for the next poll: what is your favourite Souls game? (Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, Elden Ring)

Despite liking this idea, I'd have to think about it... Keep in mind that maybe only a few people have played those games! However, if in really most of the active members have played those games, I'd be more than happy to put that poll

[Greengoop]

What if we just make the poll “Have you ever played a Souls game before?”

[DaveRattlehead]

Or maybe including it as one of the options...
Well ngl, if there isn't enough interest we can switch to another topic, in the end flexibility is key!

[PluMGMK]

Another potential conspiracy theory from a few days ago... Jeffrey Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has commited suicide recently. She stated a few years ago that she has never thought about killing herself, and if that happened, that would mean someone killed her. Not gonna lie, this sounds... Weird

Oh yeah, when I saw (once again) "Jeffrey Epstein" and "suicide" in the same headline, I was immediately like "really? " Did she really say that a few years ago? That makes it even more suspicious…

Edit: eventually voted "yes" because the Exxon report I mentioned earlier definitely smacks of a climate cover-up conspiracy.