Delusions of persecution are strong here. Who on earth would say that disagreeing with the WH on the technical definition of recession is a conspiracy theory?
The 'theory' that china deliberately manufactured and released covid is a conspiracy theory. I have not seen COVID called one, nor even, the idea that a lab in china was researching it, nor that its release is accidental.
There being a pandemic, that a lab is somewhere researching COVID, that a lab may have accidentally released COVID do not contain any conspiracies.
The phrase is a very clear term of art in my view: a conspiracy theory is a story about how the world works which places implausible conspiracies at the heart of its causal structure; in the manner of movie plots; and presents a paranoid style of reasoning in which major events, and their distal effects, are the deliberate decisions of a small number of people.
Conspiracy theories, and theorists, are by definition engaged in an epistemic vice; a pseudoscientific activity of explanation; a kind of intellectualised schizoprehnia.
It was a conspiracy theory, according to liberals, to believe that the vaccine would be mandatory and that it would not stop the disease.
Remember people saying that were called crazy not long ago.
It was a conspiracy that russia would invade ukraine according to conservatives until it happened.
Speculation gets you insulted until you are right.
Now if you say there is a recession biden worshippers will assume this is some kind of personal attack.
Which "conservatives" said Russia wouldn't invade? The realist view of IR is, largely, the conservative one -- and many conservatives were saying Russia was strongly inclined to engage in this sort of politics.
I have no idea what you're talking about. This just seems like apologetics for conspiracy theories.
"'They said' X was a conspiracy, and it isnt! When I say Y is, soon you'll find out it isnt too!".
Well 'They' didnt say it was; these mythologies of persecution reveal a lot.
2) its been claimed multiple times the vaccine could prevent the spread of covid or gaining it if I remember correctly.
3) fox news and many other groups claimed russia wouldn't invade. many disagreed but that is beside the point, we are talking about the slander of speculation.
4) that quote is a useless flanderization of my argument, I claimed many groups use the conspiracy argument to silence speculation.
as we see now its highly likely we are in recession, thats hardly a conspiracy theory I am pushing.
> It was a conspiracy theory, according to liberals, to believe that the vaccine would be mandatory and that it would not stop the disease.
> It was a conspiracy that russia would invade ukraine according to conservatives until it happened.
You appear to be agreeing with him? In any case, the use of "nutcase" isn't productive.
The whole point was to show that its a common tactic regardless of your "side" of the political spectrum to demonize speculations as foolish conspiracy theories.
I was attempting to avoid being biased.