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Lots of conspiracy theories unfortunately have more than a grain of truth to them. For example, the lab-leak theory was enough to get you banned from most soci
by Mikeb85 5y ago
Lots of conspiracy theories unfortunately have more than a grain of truth to them.
For example, the lab-leak theory was enough to get you banned from most social media platforms. Now politicians are seriously talking about it and it's on every mainstream news outlet.
- PaulKeeble 5y agoWidespread spying on everyone was a conspiracy theory for tin foil hatters until Snowden. Now no one is surprised by any of that now. Some conspiracy theories will turn that nugget of central truth into largely true, but most don't.
- Mikeb85 5y agoPart of me thinks that government agencies are behind distributing some of these 'theories' to intellectually deficient individuals in order to discredit the theories. Like, QAnon folk are obviously idiots, but it's more than plausible that QAnon was created by some government agency in order to discredit theories of events that could be damaging to the government. In the US there's been a ton of 'movements' that have risen and then fizzled out very quickly as they initially capture the public's imagination, then are co-opted by (useful) idiots.
- bell-cot 5y agoTrue - but the grain of truth may turn out to be more poetic than literal. And human nature tends to heap so much fantasy on top of any such grains that the average person is far better off using a blanket "disbelieve all conspiracy theories" heuristic.