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It's because the corruption is too straight forward.
Conspiracy theorists revel in thinking they're smart for connecting the dots, even if the dots don't form any kind of picture. That part is irrelevant to them. Feeling smart is the whole point.
This is just basic corruption that doesn't require any imaginary dot connecting. It doesn't serve to make them feel intellectually superior.
Conspiracy theorists are quiet cause there is no conspiracy to unearth here LOL. Elmo has literally bought US President and he is openly running (ruining ?) the government as his personal office. He even provides regular public updates at his personal platform X on how he is destroying US government institution by institution!
Yeah, when George Soros does it, he does it quietly.
It's sarcasm. Leave me alone.
This is more evidence for what I call "the meta conspiracy." I think conspiracy thinking has been actively promoted by the media and government in order to distract from actual government conspiracies. It both keeps people distracted with "UAPs" and "Adrenochrome" while also making any serious discussion of oligarchy, censorship, and oppression look ridiculous by association with crackpots.
I agree with the gaslighting part, but don’t necessarily think it was “the government”.
I think it was billionaire/adversaries funded groups, probably Elon in part, definitely Russia/China.
Elon understood Twitter/SM very early on. I remember reading somewhere how Tesla didn’t spend a dime on (traditional) marketing the first few years, it was pure social media manipulation / dark patterns.
“The point of propaganda is not to make you believe something in particular, is to make you not believe anything.”
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Because most conspiracy theorists are right-wing, and only have issues with anything remotely left of Margaret Thatcher, if MT didn't somehow become "too far-left" due to how the Overton Window moved further to the right...
I think that's true now, but I don't think it was necessarily true prior to The Demented Rapist descending the escalator.
A good government coverup is fodder for both sides, but after 2016 with all the Qanut stuff they just went absolutely banapants crazy.
My brothers one of them. Thinks cuz he lucked out on Bitcoin he won't have to pay taxes of the government falls, so he's stoaked about it. Thinks he'll never have to work again cuz a lack of regulation means he keeps it all when he sells em. Also was genuinely happy when I called him an Anarcho capitalist..... Grown ass man, still a simpleton
Because most of them were paid astroturf, too. Job done.
No one has any theories about it because there's no need. They're doing everything in the light of day. You don't sound like a nut if you say "that racist billionaire bought the US government" because we WATCHED IT HAPPEN. The conspiracy crowd is busy with cryptocurrency and sovcit diversions.
Same set of dipshits that form groups like the oathkeepers, etc and stockpile weapons against a tyrannical government, but constantly advocate for everything counter to this country's people and for a tyrannical government...
Also the same set of dipshits that make up bullshit about "child trafficking" when it comes to Democrats, but embrace people like donvict, Gaetz, and so on...
No one should be surprised at all.
Probably because most of them voted for this. That's at least what I've come to believe. This is a terrifying time we are in, for sure.
The supposed conspiracy people are 100% establishment figures.
I don't understand the US, there was a big fuzz a decade or so ago when there were talks of Schwarzenegger as presidential candidate and 10-15 years later you get a non-elected foreign in the government?
Honestly you need Arnold back, with his Conan sword.
The TL;DR is Propaganda works. And the US is flooded with it.
And for those who think the "left" can just copy propaganda - no, it doesn't work like that. Propaganda only serves conservative goals.
Propaganda only serves conservative goals.
Disagree, our lack of left-wing propaganda and left-wing financial support for influencer media is 75% of the reason dems lose.
Right, and how exactly is the group that decries capitalism meant to obtain financial support, or break through the righ-wing captured media?
Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with leftist ideology, and will do everything in its power to squash it.
I don't think it would take that much capital. 20 million a year you could sponsor a hundred operations all over the country in places with tons of talent but no funding. They can also end up generating profit to self sustain themselves.
Well that's certainly true- I guess maybe I should say the past attempts at a right-wing style approach to media but from a left-wing perspective have failed.
Absolutely, I'd 100% agree with you there.
Leftist propaganda works really well in my country.
Like what? How does it work?
The usual: they control most of the media through subsidies. Keep calling everyone against them "far right" while making deals with actual ethnonationalist far right parties. At some point they even took part in the overtaking of one of the banks (but it wasn't succesful), oh and they also control the biggests syndicates and funny thing they recently went to strike to protest the opposition.
Also populism.
Huh. That’s wild.
Homo homini lupus
conquistador pfp
whining about the radical leftism of Spain
says they control the media and are trying to control the banks
LoL
Edit: yeah, I block obvious fascists, keep on yelling into that void lol
I am also whining about the radical right worldwide.
I bet if I would have used a pic of Maximus from Gladiator you would say the same.
Edit. Sad that you block people but okay, enjoy your echo chamber and your lack of growth from other's people perspectives and opinions.
Ad-hominem will lead you nowhere.
It's just a totem pole of different psychotic groups giving orders
On top, the "0.1%" being a vague amalgamation of Corpo and Tech Fascists, who are looking to basically seperate themselves from society. And gain a form of Sovereignty overtop of the government itself, with their territory not being states and nations but their own networks of followers. Primarily through Social Media , Television and Internet.
Then there's the government, That is populated with slackjawed knuckle dragging chuds who want to roll on a vague Ultranationalist-Jingoism-Ultraconservative ticket.
these two groups basically think they control the other, but more or less co-exist and let the other think they're in charge.
And then below both of these groups are the diehard, dimwitted followers who are supporting them either because they think they're going to get rich by doing so, or because they want to "own" someone.
and beyond that... it starts to become everyone else.
Whew that shattered off a fragment of my mind. It's ironic that we say they want to own (get one over on) the libs, but what they really want is to do is own (enslave) an outgroup.
But, but, it is the right side of coup!
It's almost as if they're bad-faith hypocrites who will drop any supposed values the instant it's convenient for consolidating their power.
It’s almost like they’re paid propaganda and disinformation campaigns of the far right.
Exactly. (And foreign states who align with the US far-right)
aka, Fascists. The lot of them.
As is anyone defending or supporting president musk.
At this stage, I would be happy to never have to interact with another conspiracy theorist. They can all go home and commit seppuku, do something useful for society for the first time in their shitty lives.
Not really the type of conspiracy they go for, it's being done overtly, visibly, and in a way that everyone believes it is going on. Most of the "fun" of crazy conspiracies is that you have to convince everyone that you aren't crazy, that it's totally happening, and your proof is real... none of that is necessary here, they are plainly stating what they are doing, no smoke, no mirrors. Just blatant criminal power grabbing.
Because all this is happening out in the open, there's no secret conspiracy.
A conspiracy theorist thrives on being one of the few who know the actual truth.
It's specifically about being against the narrative. George Bush could come out and say he did 9/11 to destroy Hillary Clinton's checks to Jeffrey Epstein saying "For child prostitutes/adrenochrome" and they would go on about how that's just a psyop to make people go back into quarantine
I mean, if President Joe Biden had brought Soros into the government as an “efficiency expert” and let him have access to federal government data, Republicans would have impeached Biden instantly. They would have set the White House on fire using the flames erupting from the heads of Fox News hosts.
The only difference I can see here is that Musk isn’t … ohhhhhh, wait a minute. I get it. He’s not Jewish. I forgot your whole thing has to be antisemitic. My bad.
They would have literally set the White House on fire using pipe bombs.
Whoa now. Let's not be hasty. As a Canadian, I beg you to step back, think a sec, and not get derailed.
Burning the white House is our thing.
Keep the tradition alive!
It truly is the most deep statey info warrior bowling Greene lizard people pizza gate conspiracy that I've ever seen.
Yet, nothing. lol.
Alex Jones use to complain about transhumanists but now that they guy who actually wants to put computer chips in your brain has control of the federal government his top concern is... (literally looking a infowars right now)... oh god just constantly glazing trump. Also, zelensky is a warmonger who wants nukes.
Wrong audience mate
Conspiracy theorists are no longer interested when it’s no longer a theory. Always been
B-b-but G-g-george S-s-soros!
I'm more of a conspiracy hypothesist myself.