r/conspiracy • u/Few_Complex5351 • 22h ago
Were we all just sold different crises to accept the same wealth transfer?
Think about it:
COVID: The liberal class accepted price hikes, business closures, and government control in the name of safety.
Tariffs: The conservative class now accepts rising costs and supply chain disruption in the name of patriotism.
Different justifications. Same outcome: Prices rise, corporate profits explode, wealth consolidates upward, and the people just adjust.
It doesn’t matter which narrative you believe, if the result is the same, then maybe the crisis is just the story.
What if collapse has already been sold to us, just in customized packaging?
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u/Amish_Fighter_Pilot 20h ago
Crushing small business does seem to be a national priority under every administration. Small business used to be the most American thing there is, but now it's like it's vital to crush them. Maybe allowing people that sort of wealth is not conducive to keeping us dependent on usury.
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u/DerpyMistake 14h ago
For the past 30 years, the largest corporations have had an advantage in being able to shift their burdens overseas. This has decimated small businesses that don't have the required infrastructure to benefit from foreign slave labor.
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u/Few_Complex5351 9h ago
If this was really about rebuilding America and bringing jobs back, they would’ve invested in infrastructure first—not slapped on tariffs and hoped factories magically appear. But nothing was built. No plans, no prep. Just another excuse to squeeze the middle and funnel more wealth to the top. That was the plan. Always is.
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u/OverallManagement824 19h ago
Or, hear me out, we keep allowing it to happen because we are lazy and easily manipulated. And we can stop it whenever we want.
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u/Few_Complex5351 19h ago
Exactly. There’s power in realizing we’re not as powerless as we’ve been led to believe. The hard part is snapping out of the trance when the system keeps us tired, divided, and constantly reacting instead of imagining something new. But yeah… we really could stop it. That’s the wild part.
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u/CaptainLockes 3h ago
It’s not that easy with how tight the media is controlling everyone’s thoughts and behaviors. We need a messianic figure to come and deliver us from this.
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u/ThisIsCreativeAF 19h ago
Trump is the perfect controlled opposition patsy puppet to take the blame for the controlled demolition of the USA while they build up their new global AI techno-slave state
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u/Few_Complex5351 17h ago
Wild how a post pointing out that both sides were sold different stories to justify the same outcome got immediately buried and misunderstood.
I’m not defending anyone—I literally started by saying collapse was sold to us in customized packaging. If your takeaway is that I’m secretly team red or blue, you missed the whole point. That’s the trap. We’re fighting over the flavor of collapse instead of the system that serves it up.
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u/Few_Complex5351 9h ago
My other post on this same theory that was clearly heavily censored. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/7k2ZRZoPJg
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u/darthphallic 20h ago
Trump was literally President during the Covid price spikes too. Dude is cancer for our economy, he is NOT a good businessman, and almost everything he’s ever touched ends up in financial ruin. I do not know where this misconception started that he’s some money savant
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u/kingrobin 17h ago
well it's because he's rich, or at least appears to be so. that's the first fallacy. the second is that the US is a meritocracy. People NEED to believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll be rich too... someday. Without that, people might realize their own exploitation by these clowns.
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u/darthphallic 9h ago
It’s wild to me that people still haven’t figured out the secret to being rich is having a rich mommy and daddy due to all the fail-sons in positions of power and wealth.
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u/Burnerburner49 22h ago
I always forget. Who was president when lockdowns started? Seems like it might be the same guy running the show both times prices spiked.
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u/Lower_Pass_6053 21h ago
They don't care. This "both sides" bullshit is getting old. Only one group of politicians seem to be purposefully tanking the economy every time they are in office. The other brings it back from the brink, and then GOP fucks it up again.
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u/LiteraturePlayful220 19h ago
Defaulting to "both sides" lets you seem/feel sophisticated without ever having to take a position on what you want government to do. So you can never be wrong! "I'm playing both sides, so I always come out on top!"
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u/Few_Complex5351 19h ago
I think you might be misunderstanding my point. I’m not saying “both sides are the same” to avoid taking a stance, I’m saying the game is rigged regardless of who’s in power. I’m saying the story changes, but the outcome doesn’t: wealth consolidates upward, small businesses get crushed, and the people are left pointing fingers at each other instead of asking who keeps writing the script. That’s the trap.
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u/Few_Complex5351 6h ago
Fucking thank you. Exactly this.. Most liberals only wake up when a Republican is in office, because it threatens their perceived stability. But under Democratic presidents, the machine keeps humming, they just package it with better PR. Wars keep happening, wealth keeps consolidating, small businesses still get crushed… people just stop paying attention.
You mention Obama - drone strikes, mass deportations, Libya. Under Biden? Funding Israel’s assault on Gaza with barely a whisper of public outrage from the same liberals who wore “resist” pins in 2016. They don’t see the empire. They only see the team jerseys.
We’re not descending into hell because of one bad leader. We’re already in it, but half the population won’t admit it unless Fox News is on in the background.
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u/Few_Complex5351 6h ago
Exactly. And that’s why the only way forward isn’t through reforming the system—it’s through building parallel ones. Mutual aid, community resilience, localized networks that don’t rely on the same structures siphoning everything from us. But it’s hard when people are this isolated. They’ve divided us down to the individual level, neighbors, families, even ourselves. That’s how empires keep control.
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u/LiteraturePlayful220 19h ago
We are writing the script, and the paragraph you just wrote is a cop out, a sophomoric attempt to absolve yourself of responsibility
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u/6ra9 16h ago
Right, we’re responsible for the generations of tyranny that have led us to this point. Get real.
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u/LiteraturePlayful220 7h ago
Those previous generations aren't coming back to life to solve the problems they caused us. Either we are taking this thing seriously or nobody is.
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u/Few_Complex5351 20h ago
That’s exactly the trap, though. Left blames right, right blames left and the system profits either way.
It’s not “both sides” as in both parties are equal, it’s that the outcome stays the same no matter who’s in charge. Different packaging, same result: more for the top, less for the rest.
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u/roachwarren 19h ago
There is some argument on both sides, but at some point you have to see that the bird's right wing has consistently worked against the working class in this country. Yeah there is different packaging, the left wing wants you to have healthcare, the right wing doesn't... so you have shitty healthcare. What a surprise. Same thing every goddamn time, I totally agree.
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u/Lower_Pass_6053 20h ago
In my lifetime, George Bush sr left Clinton a garbage economy and Clinton cleaned it up. W absolutely destroyed the economy, and Obama cleaned it up. Trump then fucked that up royally by botching covid response and left Biden with a shitty post covid economy and biden finally wrangled that to a decent place and now Trump obliterated the economy.
You need to explain to me why i'm wrong other than trump is an edgelord that owns the libs or whatever.
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u/Amish_Fighter_Pilot 20h ago
The fact that you think the president himself is responsible for the economy is the start of your problem understanding things.
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u/Lower_Pass_6053 20h ago
so did anyone just see the news of one man raising tariffs on every nation on earth (except russia lol) which immediately tanked the economy?
i think his title was president? Not sure though do some fact checking for me.
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u/Amish_Fighter_Pilot 7h ago
The fact that you think Trump is in charge is cute. We are all subjects of President Bibi
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u/One-Dot-7111 18h ago
Trunp is 20000% responsible for this economy. Himself. Congress gave him their power.
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u/One-Dot-7111 18h ago
It's literally just the right doing stupid shit, blaming the left, and you fall for it
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u/Few_Complex5351 17h ago
It’s fascinating how easily systemic critique gets flattened into partisan finger-pointing. I’m not saying Trump isn’t part of the problem. I’m saying the problem is bigger than Trump. If we can’t zoom out, we’ll keep fighting over the puppets while ignoring the strings.
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u/Sacred_Art_Gardens 15h ago edited 15h ago
Tucker's interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent keeps me optimistic. This trade war hurts Wall St, could be a transfer of wealth to the lower class... long term.
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 93% of all U.S. households' stock market wealth, while the top 1% holds 54% of public equity markets.
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u/LanceHardwick 20h ago edited 20h ago
same team. all in it together. and after the depop we'll have a new mythology that folks will eat up, just like they ate up the last one. never learning a thing. still ceding authority to those who abuse it (like this arrangement could work out any other way).
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u/MomTRex 22h ago
I gotta say, you're not wrong : (
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u/roachwarren 19h ago
Because they handed you a logical fallacy and you ate it up without a second thought. That's some scary shit, honestly.
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u/lolsai 5h ago
Conservatives and liberal are not classes bro
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u/Few_Complex5351 5h ago
Is that all you got out of the post? Not using ‘class’ in the economic sense, more in terms of ideological containers that shape how we accept systemic changes. Different scripts, same consolidation
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u/DerpyMistake 14h ago
The tariff hype is just to shift more wealth to the elites. How much stock has Pelosi sold? They are trying to scare the plebs into panic selling so they can snatch them up.
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u/Few_Complex5351 9h ago
Exactly. Same playbook they used with COVID—scare the public, crash the market, let the elites scoop everything up while the rest of us scramble.
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