I am Proud of Being a Conspiracy Theorist

First it was 'we' meant only people in the moon programme.

Then it was Americans only...

In the space of a couple of posts you cant even stay consistent on that but feel free to lecture others on their use of we?

People do generally take pride in the achievements of humanity in art and science and it was a common reaction at the time from non Americans that this was an achievement showing what human beings were capable of. In this case American human beings.

Perhaps easier at the time for those on the American side of the Cold War or at least non USSR side.

And all the more reason to believe it was not hoaxed when there was a large cohort of experts in the USSR space programme with zero reason to play along with a hoax.

I think it's more:

"I don't understand the complex thing, but some grifters online are offering me a simpler explanation that I'm able to grasp, so therefore I'm able to pretend I understand it even better than experts."

Or something bad happened so I’ll blame it on people I don’t like.

You're probably going to get lots of "watergate! Mkultra!" Etc. Thrown at you.

But if you define conspiracy theories as theories about giant conspiracies speculated on the internet by amatuers rather than ones exposed by actual journalists. Then there have been no examples.

What if you don't believe the official narrative of a story but you have no idea what actually happened or what is going on.

Does that make someone a Conspiracy Theorist ?

Its like when a dodgy politician is talking BS and you can tell they are trying to hide something.

Remember when Bertie Ahern was trying to explain away carrying a suitcase full of cash ?

I have no theory as to why Bertie was carrying the cash but I didn't believe any of his explanations on why he had the cash and it looked extremely dodgy to me.

These days I would probably be called a "Conspiracy Theorist" if the story came out today for not believing Bertie and thinking whatever he was doing was probably extremely dodgy.

But that’s not a conspiracy,, that’s trying to get away with tax evasion.

It could be a conspiracy because we have no idea what he was doing.

When people carry suitcases full of cash it is generally a bit more serous than "tax evasion".

If the cops found someone with a suitcase full of cash who wasn't known to them they would be coming up with many possible "theories" as to why they had the cash.

A suitcase full of money could be used to pay off a hitman or for a major drugs deal but in normal life people don't carry suitcases full of cash outside of the criminal world.

On this forum, that's usually a denier.

Someone who wants to deny widely accepted facts (e.g. that the world is round) but has little or no idea how to explain otherwise (they can't demonstrate how it's flat). It's usually a level worse than a conspiracy theorist because they have no conspiracy. They typically aren't interested in any counter-explanation.

I'm not saying he was involved in any of those things but if the cops came across someone carrying all that money they would be thinking the worst.

30k was no small sum in the 90s it would actually buy you a house.

When are you carrying enough money with you to buy a house you have to be up to something seriously dodgy but whatever it is there can be no innocent explanation for it.

In 1990 the average price of a house was 60k. It was to bribe for a rezoning. And hitmen and drugs with Bertie are not conspiracy theories, they are just comedy

You mean like the pyramids...

Vast fleets of sailing ships that stripped Ireland of forests. Vast fleets of steam powered battle ships all gone. Railway guns that could fire across the channel.

these trackers in the vaccine, covid being man made , fake moonlanding, flat earth cia for jfk: Area 51 etc like literally any of these had any basis then Donald could have been able to release the evidence of it. Imagine if he had, and had demonstrated all these historic and fundamental lies being and he Would be the person to be honest. He would never have to leave the whitehous again. But not one sliver. He also promised laptops of hunter biden. None.

Hmm I wonder why they would be claiming that.. *laughs in NZ child being made a ward of medical professionals just because parents wanted readily available unvaccinated blood during a procedure*

Conspiracy theorists are often also anti-vaxxers. It fits their irrational paranoia, that someone is "out to get them", in this case that the vaccines will contain magnets or microchips or poison.

As for the NZ baby. The parents have made a strange demand for custom blood specially for their infant, that's not feasible and a judge has ruled against that. Since the child still requires the surgery (it's life saving) the court has ordered the surgery to go ahead. Some parents are incapable of taking proper care of their children because of extreme beliefs.

Anti-vaxxers, conspiracy believers and so on often seize on stories like that, because they want to perceive it as the "evil" authorities want to control someone's child, or it's evidence of some "evil" vaccine agenda at play. It's a type of black and white thinking.