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Originally Posted By u/Exotic_Snow7065 At 2025-04-15 11:27:19 AM | Source


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[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It is a conspiracy. What it isn't is a "theory."

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's what all of the disinformation has been for, to denigrate the term conspiracy theory. "Conspiracy Theory" was a term that meant things like The MK Ultra Experiments, it used to mean The Iran Contra Scandal. It was created by The CIA to discredit whistleblowers. 9/11 theorists were all called "truthers" but this included people saying outlandishly foolish things like "It was all CGI" and "Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams." As well as people who said

"How did 3 goat herders, from a country with literally zero infrastructure who lived in Caves learn to fly commercial aircraft and have enough forward knowledge of flight paths to plan the single most precisely co-ordinated terrorist attack in world history." Makes you wonder if they might have had help? Now what does conspiracy theory mean? Now it means 'The Flat Earth Conspiracy' now it means 'Heliocentrism' and 'microchips in the COVID vaccine.' Conspiracy theory has been subconsciously messaged to us all to mean lunatic. That's why we have had so many "Doomsday scenarios" over the last quarter century. The Y2K error will cause every computer in the world to fail at once and planes will fall from the sky. The Cern Super-collider will open a black hole and destroy the world, The Mayan Calendar will end and kill us all. It was all to condition us to ignore the possibilty of our own destruction.

Social media is social engineering. The Internet is just a giant global Skinner Box and we are Pavlov's dog.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

the only conspiracy-ish thing I wonder about: 9/11 makes me wonder how another president, who wasn't associated with the Kingdom of Saud royalty, would have handled things....