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People just tend to associate the term 'conspiracy theory' just with the ones that are actually crazy (such as the suggestion that we didn't land on the moon, o

People just tend to associate the term 'conspiracy theory' just with the ones that are actually crazy (such as the suggestion that we didn't land on the moon, or that the US Government perpetrated the 9/11 attack). And on top of that, many of the ones that actually turn out to be true do just sound crazy at first (who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything that happens on the Internet and millions of US citizen's phone records etc.?)...

FedRegister 13y ago
>Who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything that happens on the Internet and millions of US citizen's phone records etc? Anybody who was paying attention and had heard of Mark Kline and William Binney. The whole NSA story isn't new. Part of what makes Edward Snowden's leak of documents as powerful as it does is that it corroborates many stories that former intelligence officers have told about the internal workings of the agency.
jffry 13y ago
...who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything... Anybody who had been paying attention over the past ten years?
fit2rule 13y ago
They're only crazy until they're unproven. Beyond that, they become history. Why everyone forgets that history is thus, crazy, beats me.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  No, some very certainly are crazy, and are likely the product of mental illness. See: The Queen is a lizard. It's a shame that "The CIA is making shit up again" and "The CIA shot somebody" gets mixed in with "The Queen is a Lizard", and "The CIA orchestrated an absurdly needlessly complex plot to shoot somebody from all sorts of bizarre angles in broad daylight in plain view of the public, when shooting them from one angle would have sufficed." I mean seriously, if you tell me that the CIA goaded Oswald into doing it, then had Oswald killed, that is something I'd consider plausible. I see no proof for it, but it is something that could have happened; I'm not going to say for sure that it didn't, because I don't know that it didn't. When people start ranting about magic bullets and multiple shooters though, that is an express-line into crazy-town. It's just making shit up, and I don't understand why. Was "The CIA had Oswald do it" not a fun enough plot or something? Yeah yeah, "The CIA had to be sure, so they had a backup sniper." Fine. Why the hell would that second sniper not be in the book depository as well?
  - fit2rule 13y ago
    You never know. Maybe there is an uber-lizard-race ruling the world. It would certainly explain a lot of the inhumane things going on. :P

FedRegister 13y ago

>Who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything that happens on the Internet and millions of US citizen's phone records etc? Anybody who was paying attention and had heard of Mark Kline and William Binney. The whole NSA story isn't new. Part of what makes Edward Snowden's leak of documents as powerful as it does is that it corroborates many stories that former intelligence officers have told about the internal workings of the agency.

jffry 13y ago

...who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything... Anybody who had been paying attention over the past ten years?

fit2rule 13y ago

They're only crazy until they're unproven. Beyond that, they become history. Why everyone forgets that history is thus, crazy, beats me.

jlgreco 13y ago
No, some very certainly are crazy, and are likely the product of mental illness. See: The Queen is a lizard. It's a shame that "The CIA is making shit up again" and "The CIA shot somebody" gets mixed in with "The Queen is a Lizard", and "The CIA orchestrated an absurdly needlessly complex plot to shoot somebody from all sorts of bizarre angles in broad daylight in plain view of the public, when shooting them from one angle would have sufficed." I mean seriously, if you tell me that the CIA goaded Oswald into doing it, then had Oswald killed, that is something I'd consider plausible. I see no proof for it, but it is something that could have happened; I'm not going to say for sure that it didn't, because I don't know that it didn't. When people start ranting about magic bullets and multiple shooters though, that is an express-line into crazy-town. It's just making shit up, and I don't understand why. Was "The CIA had Oswald do it" not a fun enough plot or something? Yeah yeah, "The CIA had to be sure, so they had a backup sniper." Fine. Why the hell would that second sniper not be in the book depository as well?
- fit2rule 13y ago
  You never know. Maybe there is an uber-lizard-race ruling the world. It would certainly explain a lot of the inhumane things going on. :P