re: Why do people that buy into conspiracy theories suspend all logic and common sense?

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Tom Hanks

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There's no less than a half dozen of Hanks accusers as well as a dead actor Isaac Kappy that dimed him out.

So...? It's not a conspiracy theory it's an allegation.

How many times a week do you eat pizza for lunch?

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Now that we don't trust these institutions anymore, can we ever prove CT's a consensus satisfaction?

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sure, but we're so desensitized to what a "conspiracy theory" is anymore, it's gotta be so big and bold that it's probably fairly tough

for example, Russia-gate. there was enough in there for a reasonable CT to have been proven. but no, we can't be reasonable with our CTs anymore. it has to be Russia blackmailing Trump to be their puppet AND hacking his competition (via tertiary associates that used secondary associates that we have a history with for PR's sake to release the information) AND all the international spying going on making the contacts abroad...etc

Star Wars franchise is going to get a needed facelift according to conspiracy theorists:



This is how you discredit any legitimate concern or investigation.

You simply create a bunch of lunatic claims to contaminate the real ones.

The Pentagon literally admitted that they have off world crafts and have had them for 50 years. They literally are saying UFOs are real those exact words.

Maybe you are the one who has a problem with reality.

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Have any conspiracies ever occured? Name a couple. How long after the event did it become known?

I think about Operation Ajax, Project ARTICHOKE, Project MKUltra, etc.... people didn't find out about these until 20 years after the fact right? An I believe the only reason people found out was due to Watergate.

But hey, those were 70 years ago before computers, nothing like that would ever happen now. Right?

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Thank God JFK didn't sign off on Operation Northwoods. It was signed by everyone, all the way up to the Joint Chief of Staff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

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The Epstien stuff is real enough to keep my mind open. Had you told be 5 years ago that Alan Dersowitz and Prince Andrew were banging teens on a private island in the Caribbean, I'd have called you insane.

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Would you really? If so, why? Part of it has to be how it was conveyed, no?

If you told me celebrities and powerful men were banging sex slaves on a luxurious private island, I'd be skeptical. Nothing would really surprise me, but it sounds too sensationalized.

But if you told me an 80 year old well-known lawyer had sex a few times with a 17 year old girl who knew her way around rich men - not that crazy, is it?

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Some conspiracy theories are true and others are false. But Sheryl Atkisson in her book Smear explains that a basic tactic of left wing journalists is to label embarrassing discoveries as 'conspiracy theories' when they know the charge is true.

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The entire term, "conspiracy theory" was created by the CIA to delegitimize people calling out corruption and dissuade people from searching for the truth. It has worked to perfection.

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I love the gov't conspiracies the best. They all require a level of competency and coordination that is virtually impossible in a private, well run organization. The same people that can't balance a budget or deliver a letter can coordinate with Aliens and keep it secret.

well different agencies (and different levels of those agencies) have clearly shown different levels of competencies

the CIA has legit installed dictators and overthrown governments. hell, the CIA has been busted selling drugs

there are lots of conspiracy theories that have been proven to be true over time. it's just not ALL of them

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I mean, if 20 years ago you accused the CIA of trafficking coke, you were a conspiracy theorist. Now, it’s a major motion picture starting Tom Cruse that’s “based on a true story”. Same is true for the CIA having explored mind control experiments and psychic warfare (The Men who Stares at Goats).

Here’s a list of some truly crazy conspiracy theories proven 100% true via government disclosures or wikileaks over the last 12 years:
1. The government spies on all citizens without warrants using their keystrokes and internet data. They can use this to acquire opposition research for political parties as well as in falsified warrants to justify sham criminal investigations.

2. The U.S. military used cloud seeding and other weather control technology to significantly extend the rainy season in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War in an attempt to wash out the Ho-Chi Minh trail to curb the smuggling of weapons, supplies, and fighters to Viet Cong soldiers in South Vietnam.

3. The U.S. government intentionally spread radioactive material in urban, low-income, predominantly black neighborhoods to study the effects of nuclear fallout on populations. This study resulted in significant increases in cancers and birth defects in these populations, causing many many deaths which were never compensated for.

4. The U.S. military knows about the existence of UFO’s, does not know their origin, and is in possession of multiple crafts which crashed to earth and were recovered by government officials.

5. The CIA, through Operation Mockingbird, purposefully and systematically installed intelligence agents inside of print and televised news organizations to influence news stories and content to drive agendas and keep disclosures which would impact their operations out of the public discourse.

6. The CIA coined the term “conspiracy theorist” in order to ridicule and discredit individuals who questioned the results and findings of the Warrant Report.

7. News organizations purposefully killed stories detailing evidence of criminal activities by a billionaire pedophile despite having evidence the stories were 100% accurate, documented, and provable.

8. The Catholic Church engaged in massive orchestrated cover-ups of pedophilia, rapes, and accusations of molestation committed by clergy members. Rather than discipline or de-frocking these priests for wrongdoing, they were instead simply moved around to different Parishes and victims were threatened or coerced into silence.

These would all have gotten you laughed at as a paranoid conspiracy theorist as recently as 2006. They’re all true. Imagine what will be true tomorrow?

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Why do people that buy into conspiracy theories suspend all logic and common sense?

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Bringing this here is like asking a psychopath why they are a psychopath. You are going to get a lot of suspended logic and no common sense in the responses.