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Widespread 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 w
by PaulKeeble 5y ago
Widespread 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.