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MkUltra, COINTELPRO, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Project Mockingbird, Project Sunshine... There are thousands of conspiracies that have been vindicated, includ

MkUltra, COINTELPRO, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Project Mockingbird, Project Sunshine... There are thousands of conspiracies that have been vindicated, including ones that sounded completely insane at the time. You can just Google to answer your question with further examples.

jamespo 4y ago
well... that's certainly not thousands
- throwaway743 4y ago
  - dang 4y ago
    Hey, can you please edit name-calling, personal attacks, and swipes out of your HN comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly and that's against the site guidelines. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
    - water8 4y ago
      There’s gotta be something better you can do with your time than policing decorum. Let the flag/voting feature work as intended and leave yourself out of it. You’re not an impartial person as your political bias is clearly evident in many of your post
      - dang 4y ago
        If only that were possible! You can't imagine how happy I would be. Alas, the voting and flagging features aren't sufficient to regulate the system. In fact, none of the community and software mechanisms are sufficient on their own. There needs to be human intervention to jig the system out of its failure modes. Without that, the forum would destroy itself—that is, it would rapidly regress to the internet mean, which means HN wouldn't exist anymore—it would be a completely different place, and probably die off pretty quickly. If it helps at all, I promise you that the moderation comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read. As for political bias, I have no idea which bias you think I/we have because we routinely get accused of literally every political bias that exists. People have these perceptions because they grossly overestimate the significance of the moderation calls they dislike, while barely noticing the ones they agree with. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
nearbuy 4y ago
I meant from these newly unsealed documents. What conspiracy theory is the parent comment alluding to?

jamespo 4y ago

well... that's certainly not thousands

throwaway743 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  Hey, can you please edit name-calling, personal attacks, and swipes out of your HN comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly and that's against the site guidelines. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
  - water8 4y ago
    There’s gotta be something better you can do with your time than policing decorum. Let the flag/voting feature work as intended and leave yourself out of it. You’re not an impartial person as your political bias is clearly evident in many of your post
    - dang 4y ago
      If only that were possible! You can't imagine how happy I would be. Alas, the voting and flagging features aren't sufficient to regulate the system. In fact, none of the community and software mechanisms are sufficient on their own. There needs to be human intervention to jig the system out of its failure modes. Without that, the forum would destroy itself—that is, it would rapidly regress to the internet mean, which means HN wouldn't exist anymore—it would be a completely different place, and probably die off pretty quickly. If it helps at all, I promise you that the moderation comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read. As for political bias, I have no idea which bias you think I/we have because we routinely get accused of literally every political bias that exists. People have these perceptions because they grossly overestimate the significance of the moderation calls they dislike, while barely noticing the ones they agree with. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

nearbuy 4y ago

I meant from these newly unsealed documents. What conspiracy theory is the parent comment alluding to?