Asking this because that’s why the feds are doing this to Alex Jones and it’s been so long that I honestly only remembered that because of the posts from earlier.
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I added a whole bunch of stuff likely while you were writing that actually talks about what you wrote.
In particular:
This is the most interesting one.
MKULTRA was real and yet every single conspiracy theorist fancies themselves immune to it. They genuinely believe everything is a psyop, but even though they can never actually tell you "where" any given conspiracy theory came from, or why there is only ever "one" theory (and not competing ones they argue about), they just trust blindly that all of it is being created by their, as you described it, crack team of Batman/Rorschach "investigators". They don't ever question that maybe they could be getting fooled.
So if anything, it is evidence to suggest that conspiracy theory content is probably being created by the government.
And I think the reason so much of it is completely irrational is kind of like the same reason why phishers and scammers will intentionally make their scams a 'little' obvious: because they want to bait the dumbest, most gullible people.
It explains quite a bit, like for example, why they think the CIA used magical technology to 'hack' Michael Hastings's car, yet the CIA is magically powerless to stop anyone from talking about it on all these websites that literally operate out of the United States. Almost as if they have no interest in actually stopping anyone from talking about conspiracies.
100%
And it's why I fucking hate conspiracy theory.
It has turned the right wing into a bunch of impotent obese whining terminally-online fags who think they're making a difference, but are not. The amount of man-hours wasted on 9/11 conspiracy is insane, and frankly it doesn't even matter if 9/11 was or wasn't a conspiracy - all that does matter is in 2024, exactly >zero< right wingers have "done something" about 9/11 conspiracy. So if they believe it but don't do anything it, does it matter if they believe it? What is the difference in ACTIONS between someone who does or doesn't believe it was a conspiracy?
None. The people who think it was a conspiracy have exactly as much an impact on the world as the people who do not.
So with that in mind, does it actually matter if it was a conspiracy or not? It's been a quarter of a century.
Excellent point. I'll remember that.
I'm not 100% convinced that most of them don't know on some level that it's all a made-up LARP. Because I can't really think of any reason besides that why someone who really genuinely thought that the CIA machine-gunned 500 people in Vegas for nothing more than a laugh has decided that the proper response to such an atrocity was to just whine online and go about their lives.
The Boston Massacre involved shooting all of like 6 people or so.
My eyes nearly roll out of my head every time I hear some right-winger shouting about their guns and 'defense against tyranny'. Like you fuckin' retard you already believe that you're living under the most evil, murderous government on the fucking planet, and you don't do shit, nobody believes you're going to take up arms, especially not when you think everybody around you is a fed.