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Which conspiracy exactly are you referring to in this case? (Genuine question, I'm not up to date on anything to do with this.) In general, I don't find that t
by edanm 4y ago
Which conspiracy exactly are you referring to in this case? (Genuine question, I'm not up to date on anything to do with this.)
In general, I don't find that the specifics of conspiracies that come out were known before. It's not like people have been theorizing for years about X, then we find out that X is actually true. It's usually completely unrelated to the big conspiracy theories people are talking about.
So when a "conspiracy" comes out (and there's a question what we mean by conspiracy theory here,) when something like this comes out, I definitely update in the direction of "lots of things are happening in the world which I don't know about and might alarm me." But those things are usually far less impressive than real conspiracy theories make things seem.
I also update in the direction of "these kinds of things are hard to keep secret," since, after all, I'm hearing about them! Although I wonder how many things are never heard about?
In any case, the fact that it turns the FBI ran crazy programs in the 60s and we all know about it now does not cause me to update in the direction of "the moon landing is fake," or "9/11 was an inside job," or most conspiracy nonesense.