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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Issue being, a large number of conspiracy theories are just utter bonkers (moon nazis theory, etc.), would be really ineffective in practice (chemtrails, etc.), or tries to blame capitalism's problem on a small number of people within the system (International Jewry, etc.). In fact I kind of have a theory that the more "skizo" stuff was put out to make the real stuff look impallatable for people believing the institutions are serving them.

I know at least some opportunistic far-right people that use conspiracy theories to make their ideology look better, met at least one Holocaust denier that just wanted to whitewash the third reich for newbies until they prove they're ready for the truth through proof of loyalty, and one denies the CIA's involvement in toppling the Salvador Allende governance to make Pinochet look even more badass.

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alex Jones amd David Icke are CIA

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If they didn't exist. The CIA would create one. They need lunatics like that to leak documents to if they want the information within to be discreditted.

Pretty sure CIA remote viewing is just trying to explain knowledge gained from bugging devices.