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by krapp 4395 days ago
There's a difference between believing conspiracies exist (which they obviously do) and taking for granted that any random conspiracy theory is probably true.

For instance - no amount of Snowden revelations will make it more likely that FEMA death camps are waiting for us under Denver International Airport, or that HAARP is being used to control the weather, or that NASA is covering up their occult demonolatry regarding the ancient Egyptian hyperdimensional network between Earth and Mars -- all of which are a;sp conspiracy theories which people believe.

I'm reminded of a quote by Alan Moore:

    “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is 
    that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because 
    that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it 
    is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not 
    The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the 
    Gray Alien Theory.

    The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. 
    The world is rudderless.”