There doesn't need to be a mind behind a process. Many things, including some of society's worst troubles and the confluences of malfeasance in politics, are simply emergent properties of large social systems. No intent necessary.
People suffering from something like this may feel totally isolated from regular people around them and so meeting fellow sufferers online must be a great relief and comfort. Unfortunately, from their perspective, the affliction is external rather than internal.
"big pharma" => see Purdue
"pizzagate" => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Nolan_(politician) "is an American registered sex offender and former state district court judge, a former leader in the Republican Party and a former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in Campbell County, Kentucky. On February 9, 2018, he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child sex trafficking and human trafficking; on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison"
and so on.
> Tuskeegee siphilis study
And a lot of conspiracy theories are "what if this thing the US did to black people it also did to white people"
Both parties and beyond, everyone must stop the partisan squabbling.
No, I don't care about the psyop you read on reddit.
> Both parties and beyond, everyone must stop the partisan squabbling
Prisoner's dilemma: the first person to stop being partisan loses. And demonstrably hyper-partisanship is working for at least one party.
I'm losing.
You all suck.
Abolish First Past the Post.
I'm not even in the same prison, I'm a Brit, and I strongly agree with this. I actually get to vote in a non-FPTP election as well and, surprise surprise, it produces much better results.
Seems like just trade one problem for another.
The issue with the ranked choice was the rules, the runoff resulted in some random person with fewer votes winning.
edit: removed joke about "epstein not killing himself" because it distracted from the main point by introducing a second conspiracy theory.
That doesn't prove any particular course of events did happen, though. In the meantime the next excitement will be Prince Andrew.
The stated person was just the first hit for a republican actually convicted of child sex offences.
For a brief, beautiful period of time, we were united. Far left, far right, normies and the fringes of cyberculture alike; united in thinking “so the cameras magically broke and the guards fell asleep… yea right!!!”
I have no evidence for this, and don’t want to even imply it’s more than my imagination.
There's so much bad stuff going on, everywhere, why do people feel compelled to make stuff up?
It helped add a lot of clarity and understanding for different viewpoints, because you can begin an information exchange by first trying to parse what someone is skeptical about.
One person’s skepticism is another person’s conspiracy theory.
"Nobody who believes in conspiracy theories has ever been a project manager."
If you've experienced how difficult it can be to cat-herd 10-20 people on some web migration project, you know how impossible it would be to have a huge group of people engaged in some goal that nearly everyone would find objectionable, be effective, and somehow manage to keep it all a secret.
That can only mean that I've obtained a mythical level of financial success and access.
[1] I use this phrase to replace "intent", because outside of requiring the "intender" to be person who can be held to account with punishment or reward, the reward mechanism is the same environmental pressure.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/18/a-giant-crawlin...