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by quantummagic 226 days ago
That seems like a cliché happily championed by the malicious.
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As recommended by the CIA: https://youtu.be/Ro7sIqpcspM
Vs. conspiracy theorists are happy to imagine an evil genius black op behind every village idiot?
Snowden proved that conspiracy theorists were right.
Broken clocks are occasionally right. Yet intelligent people never seem to use them to tell time...
He wasn't the only one.
What fraction of conspiracy theories have proven correct, at a Snowden-ish level?

My sense is that conspiracy theorists are essentially a cron job crying "Wolf!" every 60 seconds. The occasional real-world wolf does not justify paying any attention to the alarms. OTOH, it's a false dichotomy to believe that the false alarms prove the non-existence of wolves.