El Gallo Blanco said:
MouthBQ98 said:
Large segments of our society are devolving into conspiratorial thinking or obsessions I have noticed. I think it is partly the flood of information of highly variable quality from social media that can be used with confirmation bias to easily construct narratives, and an increased feeling of helplessness or hopelessness or even nihilism in general. There is an increased impetus to search for someone or something to blame as a simple causal explanation for bad circumstances or events, instead of patiently finding, validating, and analyzing information.
It doesn't help that so many outright conspiracies have unfolded before our eyes over the past 5-6+ years...and that American institutions have rightfully lost just about any and all trust they ever had with tens of millions of people.
When you can't trust anything, and think your government is always lying to you - because THEY ARE...it's a breeding ground for crazy conspiracy theories. I still think a lot of these are fueled by bots btw. I see crazy sh** in the comments sections, and often times it's someone with an AI image and very little to no followers.
Except a lot of what people cite as "conspiracies" never actually were. The Democrats and media would label them as such to try to silence people.
The WuFlu came from nature or the lab. Those were the only two options.
HQC worked, a 2015 paper by none other than Anthony Fauci said it worked against SARS-1, which is why doctors used it early on. As soon as Trump mentioned it, the Democrats and media went nuclear because it was Trump. They wanted the fear and terror of the virus to help them against Trump. Same reason they went after Ivermectin.
Russia, Russia, Russia was either true, or the Democrats were using the junk from Steele to run a witch hunt. The real ones pushing a conspiracy theory about Russia were the Democrats. Everyone else was calling it for what it was, BS from the word go.
The shots were dangerous or they weren't. Again, the Democrats labeled all concerns as a "conspiracy theory." The truth is in between. They are not safe, but they were not anywhere close to the level of injecting plutonium like some considered them to be, nor is every single death of someone under the age of 90 caused by them.
Q-Anon was the biggest conspiracy **** fest of all, and either supreme trolling of the right, or some kind of psyops. Countless people still believe and still check daily to see if there is a new "Q" drop.
And of course, we can't go a day without some new antisemitic conspiracy being pushed.
Recently we had someone here claim the FBI sent the "trans" guy to shoot up the Minnesota church, because it was preparing to raid a "church" in Florida and Texas that was actually a front for numerous illegal enterprises. He claimed it was a "coordinated attack on Christianity" by the FBI.
There is a huge conspiracy theory industry on the right, especially with people like Candace Owens and Laura Loomer. They know the grift and make bank on it.
The left went off the rails so long ago that they'll believe anything which fits their world view no matter how crazy it is.
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Just because something doesn't make logical sense, or there is missing/unavailable information does not mean it is a conspiracy.
Logic and critical thinking really has gone out the window and people, especially on the right, need to get it back.
Occam's razor is still as true today as it ever was.
One of my favorites is that Bill Clinton had the US Navy shoot down TWA 800. When pointing out to people that when a ship fires a SM-1 or SM-2 missile, everyone on the ship knows it. If there had been a US warship in the area and had fired a missile, hundreds of sailors on that ship would know what happened and someone would have talked. The response usually is "Clinton had everyone on the ship killed to cover it up" which is even more absurd because killing a couple of hundred sailors would also be impossible to cover up.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
