@icedquinn 100 conspiracy theories are created, 50 conspiracy theories are propagated as surely true, 2 of them end up being true, "look guys we were right all along, conspiraciez r realz", the rest is either disproved enough to change the narrative to "uhh we didn't actually believe in them, they were planted by the feds to make us seem insane" or get covered up in embarrassment, or it's not and each stays propagated as surely true until it too collapses into true or disproven enough.
It's like with the Alex Jones was right meme, it's funny but it obviously works on a broken clock basis.
@icedquinn not really tho, there's a lot of conspiracy theories that are both extremely unlikely to be true and harmful enough to be fought against. Off the top of my head because it's a bit of my pet peeve, the holokaust deniers are one of the most retarded conspiracy movements I've seen, and obviously they're being fought because never forgetting what people are capable of doing to other people in a totalitarian enough setting is most of its historical value, not Jewish oppression olympics.
@Hyolobrika @icedquinn "crying about conspiracy theories" for a start. Combined with "they don't care about the fake ones" suggests that every conspiracy theory publicly opposed is true, which is ridiculous.
@icedquinn @Hyolobrika these are direct quotes tho. Looks like I misunderstood and you're not actually defending conspiracy theorists but rather talking about a specific way that term is used to attack people who are more of whistleblowers or investigative journalists? But you're phrasing it in the exact same way as actual conspiracy nuts defending their siege mentality and trying to downplay the term "conspiracy theorists" itself.
if you think that's what i said, you didn't understand it at all.