I added a whole bunch of stuff likely while you were writing that actually talks about what you wrote.
In particular:
The MKUltra program was real.
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.
It's a comforting thought to them. As they sit at their computers in their otherwise boring lives doing nothing of real value, it allows them to tell themselves that perusing 4chan and posting salacious things on forums is "fighting the good fight". It's the same slacktivist attitude we see over on TDW with all of the "meme warrior" bullshit. A way for boring useless people, who to their credit are at least on the right side and do believe the right things, to tell themselves that they're a soldier in the fight of good and evil, all without ever having to do anything but sit at their computer.
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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.
I added a whole bunch of stuff likely while you were writing that actually talks about what you wrote.
In particular:
The MKUltra program was real.
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.
It's a comforting thought to them. As they sit at their computers in their otherwise boring lives doing nothing of real value, it allows them to tell themselves that perusing 4chan and posting salacious things on forums is "fighting the good fight". It's the same slacktivist attitude we see over on TDW with all of the "meme warrior" bullshit. A way for boring useless people, who to their credit are at least on the right side and do believe the right things, to tell themselves that they're a soldier in the fight of good and evil, all without ever having to do anything but sit at their computer.
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?
It doesn't. So 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy and if you think it is, you're wasting your time.
I added a whole bunch of stuff likely while you were writing that actually talks about what you wrote.
In particular:
The MKUltra program was real.
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.
It's a comforting thought to them. As they sit at their computers in their otherwise boring lives doing nothing of real value, it allows them to tell themselves that perusing 4chan and posting salacious things on forums is "fighting the good fight". It's the same slacktivist attitude we see over on TDW with all of the "meme warrior" bullshit. A way for boring useless people, who to their credit are at least on the right side and do believe the right things, to tell themselves that they're a soldier in the fight of good and evil, all without ever having to do anything but sit at their computer.
#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?
It doesn't. So 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy and if you think it is, you're wasting your time.
I added a whole bunch of stuff likely while you were writing that actually talks about what you wrote.
In particular:
The MKUltra program was real.
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.