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Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

People seem to be forgetting that not all conspiracy theories or theorists are crazy.

Sometimes it turns out to be true. Just ask MKULTRA and Iran-contra.

But yeah, 99.997% of them are fake and made up by one or a few people, and get repeated ad nauseum

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Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Some of them are true, but it’s impossible to know which ones until you get actual non-batshit evidence which is why it’s not reasonable to believe any of them.

But if you want to have a favorite one just for fun, I think that’s ok.

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- Lemming421@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But if you want to have a favorite one just for fun, I think that’s ok.
  
  Mine is probably the ‘NASA wanted to fake the moon landings, so they got Kubrick in to direct. But he was such a perfectionist, he insisted on filming on location’ one.
  
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- Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You have to do some careful research and reasoning. Arrive at your conclusions the hard way.
  
  But then they call you crazy.
  
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Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Those weren’t conspiracies. The government just covered them up. Truths are never conspiracy…it’s kind of the definition.

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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Truths are never conspiracy…it’s kind of the definition.
  
  No, it’s not.
  
  conspiracy noun a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
  
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Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Texas sharpshooter fallacy.

Problem is that conspiracy theorists believe that the theories that have actually been proven true are fake and meant to throw people off from the real truth.

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