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Or, look at the Gulf of Tonkin Incident deniers. People alleged that Pres. Johnson made up his own pretext to initiate the Vietnam War. Or, look at the people
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
Or, look at the Gulf of Tonkin Incident deniers. People alleged that Pres. Johnson made up his own pretext to initiate the Vietnam War.
Or, look at the people who alleged that the CIA had agents operating as journalists in domestic and foreign media.
Or, look at those loonies who said that the gov't listened to all our phone calls. They even had a name for that lunacy, they called it ECHELON.
Or, after ECHELON was disproven, the nutters continued to insist that the gov't was spying on citizens. Crazy eh?
Sure, conspiracies are rare. But, you can't dismiss them with hand-waving, and, your comment is the prototypical hand-waving ad-hom comparing anyone who dares admit consideration of a conspiracy to Flat-Earthers. It's a cheap tactic.
- Symmetry 13y agoNone of your examples follow the three step process InclinedPlane outlined.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoI know, isn't it so weird how we know whether or not things are true based on evidence? Such a complicated world we live in.
- mpyne 13y agoWhen was ECHELON disproven?
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoIt wasn't. The whole post is tongue-in-cheek.