Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. I’m tired of this term being tossed around as if none have born legit proof. The older I get, the more I see everything on a spectrum, with the slider movable in any direction.
Real tinfoil hat time: The term “conspiracy theory” was popularized by the CIA after the JFK assassination in order to sow seeds of doubt about any critique of the official narrative. While the concept of a “conspiracy theory” existed before then (the nazis were quite fond of using the same sort of logic for example) after JFK we start to see a massive push to lump in any sort of critique of the powers that be and big business as a “conspiracy theory” and trying to lump it in with crazy stuff about the moon landing being fake and antisemitic hogwash.
The term is basically used as a broad brush to label anything too far outside the acceptable range of opinions as just “crazy nonsense” and in order to perpetuate this, the three letter agencies actively push for the more “mainstream” conspiracy theories, like QANON, in order to distract the public and prevent them from forming class consciousness.
Tbh that magic bullet still seems sus af, to me. And I will NEVER forget Gulf of Tonkin, or the Bay of Pigs. Or Korea, Nam, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatamala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Libya… You get the idea.
Exactly! Personally regarding JFK I think that Oswald wasn’t a patsy as is often claimed, and the magic bullet stuff is a red herring, you don’t need expert sightlines or marksmanship skills to get a lucky shot. And Oswald’s history is very suspicious indeed, I don’t think we need to invoke a second gunman, he was just working with the CIA, hell, maybe his job was just to “scare” Kennedy (JFK was wanting to defund the CIA and make them more transparent, with actual oversight of their activities) so it might have been an attempt by them to scare him into thinking that they are “necessary” and things just went wrong and they had to scramble to cover their tracks. Part of the difference between a conspiracy theory and an actual real world conspiracy is regular human mistakes and errors. There has never been a perfectly executed “master plan” that requires no changes or has any unexpected errors coming up.
But yeah, it’s absurd to think that the same people with a complete lack of respect for human life and the “freedom” they claim to champion would actually be honest with the public.
Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. I’m tired of this term being tossed around as if none have born legit proof. The older I get, the more I see everything on a spectrum, with the slider movable in any direction.
Real tinfoil hat time: The term “conspiracy theory” was popularized by the CIA after the JFK assassination in order to sow seeds of doubt about any critique of the official narrative. While the concept of a “conspiracy theory” existed before then (the nazis were quite fond of using the same sort of logic for example) after JFK we start to see a massive push to lump in any sort of critique of the powers that be and big business as a “conspiracy theory” and trying to lump it in with crazy stuff about the moon landing being fake and antisemitic hogwash.
The term is basically used as a broad brush to label anything too far outside the acceptable range of opinions as just “crazy nonsense” and in order to perpetuate this, the three letter agencies actively push for the more “mainstream” conspiracy theories, like QANON, in order to distract the public and prevent them from forming class consciousness.
Tbh that magic bullet still seems sus af, to me. And I will NEVER forget Gulf of Tonkin, or the Bay of Pigs. Or Korea, Nam, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatamala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Libya… You get the idea.
Exactly! Personally regarding JFK I think that Oswald wasn’t a patsy as is often claimed, and the magic bullet stuff is a red herring, you don’t need expert sightlines or marksmanship skills to get a lucky shot. And Oswald’s history is very suspicious indeed, I don’t think we need to invoke a second gunman, he was just working with the CIA, hell, maybe his job was just to “scare” Kennedy (JFK was wanting to defund the CIA and make them more transparent, with actual oversight of their activities) so it might have been an attempt by them to scare him into thinking that they are “necessary” and things just went wrong and they had to scramble to cover their tracks. Part of the difference between a conspiracy theory and an actual real world conspiracy is regular human mistakes and errors. There has never been a perfectly executed “master plan” that requires no changes or has any unexpected errors coming up.
But yeah, it’s absurd to think that the same people with a complete lack of respect for human life and the “freedom” they claim to champion would actually be honest with the public.