The Trilateral Commission: Power elites grapple with China's rise

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I remember when the existence of this group was a "conspiracy theory"

Was the existence of the group a conspiracy theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission

Or were some of the more lurid stories told about it conspiracy theories?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission#Criticis...

(scroll down to "Conspiracy theories")

Humans really suck at distinguishing between those two situations. Which is why so many of them are so quick to believe "Elders of Zion"-style bullsh*t, when 5 seconds of "fridge logic" thinking should be enough to realize that it's bullsh*t.

That's the beauty in it. You troll and spread obvious lies around pubic conspiracy, so that it takes huge effort to distinguish the truth from falsehood. If you stumble in your judgement once, the debunkers know exactly why you're wrong.

Examples: China spread 5G stupid conspiracies so that opposing china's 5G development and integration would get you associated with conspiracy theorists.

China intentionally released COVID as biological warfare from a lab conspiracy muddled the theory that China had accident in a lab.

It's very easy to misrepresent some conspiracies as believing in some completely crazy things. When there is milder and plausible explanation.

Chips in the vaccine used to distract from the very real conspiracy of planning digital health certificates.

You can't let obvious falsehoods around something distract you. Need to take maths epistemology: false statements prove nothing - both ways! The human nature is for falsehoods to convince you of the opposite statement.

There's a 1980s docunentary about the group, apparently they didn't hide themselves well.

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