[logfromblammo]

"Conspiracy theory" is an idiomatic phrase in en_US now.

You don't need to have an actual conspiracy, just a Them that is secretively and maliciously acting against Us. You may label any possible explanation for an observed phenomenon as a "conspiracy theory" if the following conditions are met:

- You wish to pre-empt calls for citations and evidence by admitting up front that you don't have any.

- You admit that you might not necessarily even believe your own explanation is valid in any way.

- You are explicitly discarding Hanlon's Razor. [0] The usual reasoning is that the observed behavior could only be explained by stupidity of such colossal magnitude that a much lesser amount of malice would actually be more plausible. This is usually a backhanded dig at the party that may actually be that colossally stupid. (Seriously, how many merchants can't sort a list of their merchandise by price?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor