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My prediction: these documents may narrow some unknowns while providing zero evidence that rebuts the conventional story. Conspiracy theorists are emotionally
by AuthorizedCust 4y ago
My prediction: these documents may narrow some unknowns while providing zero evidence that rebuts the conventional story. Conspiracy theorists are emotionally invested in their wacko ideas, so they will continue peddling their warez.
Conspiracy theorists allow their emotions to overwhelm their rationality. It’s a self-imposed mental feebleness. Most of us, by contrast, find balance between the two.
Much of the worst we see in modern US politics are when bad actors knowingly take advantage of this emotionally driven mental feebleness. That’s how you empower extremists.
- maybelsyrup 4y agoDude are you ok
- rowanseymour 4y agoYour comment shows an lack of intellectual curiosity which I think demonstrates that conspiracy theories have done the job they were created to do - dissuade people from asking too many questions about actual conspiracies. You're applauding yourself for not being "mentally feeble".. for blindly accepting the CIA version of events.
- starkd 4y agoTrue. We need to accept the fact we really don't know what happened, while also realizing that conspiracies can (and do) happen.
- lettergram 4y agoI mean, it’s kind of easy to make a conspiracy theory out of it when the assassin is killed and his killer dies of lung cancer 2-3 years later. The warren commission also had its own issues; including lack of motive - https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-warren-commission https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about... Then the government agencies in the 70s are caught doing a lot of illegal provable (often admitted) conspiracies. These including things such as spying, giving citizen deadly diseases (Tuskegee experiments), blackmailing, bribing and threatening members of congress, etc (see church committee) It’s easy to see why these conspiracy theories persist.
- krapp 4y agoThe dying from lung cancer, for a middle aged man in the 1960s, doesn't seem suspicious. Particularly not years after the fact.
- cpr 4y agoThe phrase "conspiracy theorist" was invented specifically by the CIA at the time to discredit Warren Commission doubters.
- ceejayoz 4y agoHilariously, this is itself a conspiracy theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Etymology_and_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Etymology_an... > The term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which claims the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule. > The earliest known usage was by the American author Charles Astor Bristed, in a letter to the editor published in The New York Times on January 11, 1863. He used it to refer to claims that British aristocrats were intentionally weakening the United States during the American Civil War in order to advance their financial interests.
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y agoSo...still intentionally used to discredit a plausible-but-unproven accusation?
- ceejayoz 4y agoWhat else would you like us to call a theory about an alleged conspiracy? What's your preferred term that accurately encompasses the collection of quite-plausible all the way to batshit-insane possible explanations that have been proposed?
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y agoI provided it: "plausible-but-unproven accusation" You had said "this is itself a conspiracy theory" and then provided evidence that it was false. Therefore it is simply false. But the implication seemed to be that "conspiracy theory" = "something that is false but people still believe" My point was that, similar to many of the other "-ist"s, a term can have a technically valid meaning yet still be misused in bad faith to shut down debate. (Not at all saying that's what you were doing - just seemed like a relevant place to make the point.)
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y agoYou seem to really have it out for "conspiracy theorists" as a whole lumped group. Seems like you are the one allowing "emotions to overwhelm their rationality." Especially in the context of JFK assasination, which is like the most mainstream of anything that could be called a conspiracy theory.
- snapcaster 4y agoDid a conspiracy theorist bang your girlfriend or something? I prefer those wackos to people like you that claim balance while being totally incurious about anything contradicting what you've been told by "trusted sources"