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FactsAreUseless posted:What makes conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones so effective is that the U.S. has legitimately done a bunch of crazy poo poo that sounds like conspiracy theories. MK Ultra, basically every single thing we did in the South America during the Cold War, Iran-Contra, every single thing about J. Edgar Hoover and the Dulles brothers, we sent pallets of cash to Iraq that vanished (this isn't even a conspiracy, just a baffling fuckup), the CIA sold cocaine to fund arms trade, the Tuskegee experiment, etc. etc. It all sounds exactly like the made-up theories, just with different nouns. The only difference is it's proven history. conspiracy theorists also lay claim to be smarter than everyone, and conspiracy theories that "prove" jfk was killed by zionists or w/e are a way of proving they're smarter, because everyone else just can't see that there was a cipher in the protocols in the elder of zion foretelling it there's probably some mortality salience involved too, infowars can say that the las vegas massacre was a false flag so that antifa can secretly be trained by isis and people can shield themselves from the fact that the chances of you dying at any moment are out of your control sometimes. there was some good article arguing that politics are almost entirely defined by mortality salience, it makes a lot of sense when you see studies sort of peripheral to it, like a strong link between fear of germs/disease and links to conservatism
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