Now we're finding out how much of that is true.

Are we?

Like what?

The vast majority of 'conspiracy theories' that gain traction the loudest are idiotic things like space lasers blowing up 0.02% of Los Angeles because something something 15 minute cities. They said the same shit about Lahaina except it never happened, and the Hawaiian government actually took measures to stop investment firms from buying up the land.

USAID money laundering is in fact a "conspiracy theory" but it's not sexy. It's also pretty fucking mundane and it's the kind of shit that everybody on the planet for all of history has engaged in all the time: the corruption of politics and fraud by way of money. The fucking Roman Empire had this same goddamn shit happening.

Compare that to "HAARP caused an ice storm in Texas one time to make Republicans look bad" or some shit. How many people who talk about HAARP are aware that that theory was literally invented to just sell a book? The guy who wrote it (I could look him up but I don't care) never had any kind of leaked emails, or technical documents, or did any sort of high-level analysis of the technology. He literally just made it the fuck up. HAARP, in fact, is run by the University of Alaska or Anchorage or whatever, and you can rent time on it. Has any conspiracy theorist actually gone to HAARP and invested any research into it?

Fuck no, that requires you to have an education beyond driving a dump truck. It's easier for the poor, stupid, lazy CT crowd to just bitch and whine on the internet.

Remember Gary Webb? The guy who 'broke the Iran/Contra scandal'? How many are aware that Gary Webb didn't 'break' the scandal until after it was public knowledge outed by congress? And he "was killed" years and years after he wrote his book? So they killed this guy to 'cover up' a scandal that already was exposed, and they waited until after he published his book, which you can still buy today?

Remember Michael Hastings? The guy who 'uncovered the truth about Iraq'? How many are aware that Michael Hastings not only was doing Obama's dirty work and got a beloved general removed from duty (a general who was openly critical of the Iraq war), but everything he wrote was, like Gary Webb, written after the public already knew the Iraq war was bullshit? How many are aware that the Iraq Dossier had never been covered up and openly involved the Blair government, and nobody there was killed for it? So they killed this guy to 'cover up' a scandal that already was exposed, and they waited until after he published his book, which you can still buy today?

Conspiracy theory is fucking gay. It has the same effect on the world as being 40 years old and still insisting Santa Claus is real: nobody cares, and it doesn't matter. Get a real hobby and focus on the future instead of continuing to piss away your life on decades-old faggotry that nobody will ever care about.