• Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Michael Parenti - Conspiracy and Class Power

    Conspiracies happen, every casus belli the US has used in the last 70 years has been the result of a conspiracy. Experimenting on the people of the Bikini Atoll was a conspiracy. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was a conspiracy. COINTELPRO was a conspiracy.

    Acting like it's either a conspiracy or the result of systems is a false dichotomy.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      When someone mentions the term "conspiracy," I ask if they mean lizardmen mind controlling us from inside a hollow earth or stuff the CIA has flat-out admitted.

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I consider the term "conspiracy theory" so ideologically charged that it's basically useless. As far as I can tell, most people's definition of "conspiracy theory" is "a thing that some people believe that I think is weird" instead of "theory about people coming together to do something nefarious for personal gain."