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The mental gymnastics everyone is doing to make Christie viable is perplexing.

 

Wait. People think Titanic never sank?

 

Yep. It’s…sigh:

People seem to love a good insurance fraud story, so maybe it’s unsurprising that this conspiracy theory is one of the Titanic’s most popular. This one posits that someone switched the Titanic with another White Star Line ship, the R.M.S. Olympic. But as Paul Burns, vice president and curator for the Titanic Museum Attractions in Missouri and Tennessee, points out, “it just doesn’t make any sense.”

This theory starts with the fact that the Olympic was damaged while sailing from Southampton, England to New York in September 1911, and had to return to Harland and Wolff’s shipping yard in Belfast for repairs. The company repaired the Olympic and it sailed to New York and back. It returned to Belfast for more repairs in March 1912, a few weeks before the Titanic set sail.

The conspiracy theory claims that some person or people found the Olympic too severely damaged to be profitable, and so at some point switched it with the Titanicto purposefully ditch the damaged ship, reap the insurance money and, it seems, kill a bunch of people in the process.

There are a lot of holes in this theory, but one of the biggest is that the Titanic’s insurance wasn’t enough to cover the Olympic’s loss. As J. Kent Layton writes in Conspiracies at Sea, “the switch conspiracy flounders—quite literally—on its financial merits alone.”

The Craziest Titanic Conspiracy Theories, Explained | HISTORY

 

okay but the cia did kill jfk and the united states is run by a deep state

 

I have some questions about Nazis on the moon.

 

also lol at iran contra on it. like that isn't a verifiably true thing that happened.

 

this is me

 

but we know everything about reagan's involvement, that just makes it even more goofy

 

Ehh, do we though? Some info is disputed and I’d bet money there’s more that was never found and/or hasn’t been released

 

more reason why it shouldn't be on there.
"tiktok conspiracy debunker" is such a bleak thing, what horrible times we live in.

 

lol well i assume that’s why it’s on there in the “we’ve got questions” category, aka we’ve got questions about what is and isn’t true here. I think that’s a solid category for it, but probably trends more to the lower part

 

fake news the earth IS flat

 

UFOs/extraterrestrials exist and government covered up knowledge and evidence is the only conspiracy theory I subscribe to

 

The Earth is quite flat in 4D space, so twitter should mark this as misinformation

 

That's exactly what my Mom said a week after discovering Youtube at age 73

 

Is "Epstein didn't kill himself" really a conspiracy?

 

Are you talking "Epstein is still alive and faked his death" or "Epstein was gonna talk and so other people killed him to get him to shut up"?

 

Maybe these fines aren't big enough....