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*In Borat voice* My LiFe! Sorry... I'm not good at accents.
Hym "Yeah! I couldn't have put it better myself! A right-wing conspiracy nut's worst nightmare. Well, I mean, I COULD have put it better myself because I'm a genius and the greatest mind who has ever lived but it's-that's pretty good, yeah... And it's like 'Do you really have a stalker or are you just saying that because you know who I am and you know that I have a stalker and you want use my response to you SAYING you have a stalker (regardless of whether or not it's true) to justify your participation?' You know? Or 'Do you really have a paranoid schizophrenic brother or are you just saying that because you know who I am? Would you be saying any of this if I wasn't here?' It's like you want your behavior to be contingent on my behavior... Without my behavior being ONLY SELECTIVELY CONTINGENT on your behavior. If I do what you want, you're responsible. If I don't, it's on me. And it's NOT ANALOGOUS to MY behavior, because I take FULL CREDIT for the good and the bad. From dead kids to saved souls. Full credit."
Gateway Conspiracy Theory.
Typically a conspiracy that does less harm than the other theories.
It often leads to more dangerous conspiracy theories.
Hence the term " gateway"
E.G: flerfers or flat-earthers theory could be less dangerous than say, a theory that the the elites are out to destroy us all, as it USUALLY has no real-life consequence.
Whereas a conspiracy theory that states the elites are out to destroy us all can lead upto and include death by suicide, paranoia, etc.
Gateway Conspiracy Theory.
That bloke that topped himself used to just be into #GatewayConspiracyTheories, flat earth, etc.
Then he went onto the hard stuff, like the elites want to kill us all.
A belief that the government and the media should never be trusted.
You think it’s silly to be a conspiracy theorist? Well I think it’s silly that you trust the media and the government. That’s why I believe a conspiracy theory can be true.
Anything you are sufficiently uneducated about but form an opinion on anyway.
Conspiracy theories are dumb and you're dumb
A theory that some fact or information is being hidden from the general public—a conspiracy—for whatever reason. These views are generally not held by most people or media (which is often part of the point—if something *is* being hidden, most people wouldn’t know).
Possibly the most well-known and widespread conspiracy theory is that planet Earth is actually flat, not spherical, and that this fact is covered up, keeping people in the dark.
A conspiracy theory may be true, false, or only partially true. “Conspiracy theory” is often used as a pejorative, usually an attempt to discredit ideas that are disagreed with; however, although theories like the Earth being flat can be patently disproven, many are still controversial.
In the United States, many conspiracy theories are attributed to the federal government. For example:
• some people purport that the attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11) were perpetrated by the government as an excuse to increase citizen surveillance, or justify invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
• the demonstrations at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 were allegedly helped along by the government in an effort to discredit Donald Trump and his supporters.
• the existence of aliens and UFOs is supposedly hidden by the government, and equipment and specimens from said aliens is being stored in the top-secret Air Force facility Area 51.
“The CIA psychologically tortured human subjects to develop drugs that could psychomanipulate people during interrogations!”
“Oh yeah, that did happen, actually.”
“Sorry, what?”
“MKUltra. The CIA experimented on humans to make drugs.”
“…oh. Huh. Like, I was just trying to make up a weird conspiracy theory for Urban Dictionary, but… wow. I think my day is ruined now.”
What about Fat-Cock Self-Preservation Theory, Cody? What do you think of that one? The most profound and accurate conspiracy theory on the web!
Hym "How's this for a conspiracy theory: The accusations of liar and grifter do nothing to hurt right-wing pundits EXPLICITLY BECAUSE they aren't intended to hurt them but, rather, deflate the value of liar and grifter accusations in a deliberate attempt to cover for ineffective political opposition. Because sure you're calling them a liar and a grifter but if you can keep them in the forefront of people's minds you can keep out the MORE EFFECTIVE opposition out of the lime light and maintain the status quo. So, denigrating the political opposition ISN'T TO GET YOU TO STOP LISTENING TO JORDAN PETERSON... It to get you to focus on Jordan Peterson instead of me. Because he is harmless and ineffective and I am not."
Something made up by morons because they either lack understanding in political and scientific consensus, ergo disbelieving it to cover up the fact they aren't educated on those topics. In short, a conspiracy theory is made to make stupid people feel more intelligent and scholarly, albeit the only sources they have gathered information from are either from YouTube, Facebook, or some satire hoax video or an article from a conspiracy website rather than an official source or fact checking their sources before blindly believing it. They won't research on both sides of the narrative because they are biased towards their narrative and prefer to cherry pick their evidence, e.g they won't check for logical fallacies or contradictions, won't check if the source has a history of spreading misinformation, they won't bother checking the date of when the source was published, on this account they begin to spout shit that had already been disproved by professionals or those in power. For those who are unable to differentiate between critical thinking and conspiracy theorism, conspiracy theorists tend to blindly follow a source, ironically they call their more intellectually superior counterparts sheeple for blindly following the mainstream news, but they nevertheless follow an alternative source by some random guy on social media or a conspiracy or pseudoscience article.
Idiot: Have you ever heard of "pLaNdEmIc?"
Educated person: Yes I have heard of the plandemic conspiracy theory, but because I actually took my time to search for errors in the source i.e logical fallacies, who created the video (an anti vaxxer) and research on what scientists had to say about it and according to the scientists, the vaccine is safe and I shall be having it when it is my turn. 😁
Idiot: Yeah whatever dumb sheeple 💉🐑
So don't be like the idiot and be like the educated person because the educated person has done their critical thinking, used fact check sources such as BBC reality check, researched the truth about vaccines on pro-science sources etc. If you are unsure of the type of websites you should be retaining facts from, try asking a professional i.e a doctor, librarian, teacher or a professor.