> What's changed my mind is realizing how often things that might be labeled as conspiracy theory actually happen.
Part of the reason this happens is that the people who are constantly peddling conspiracies say whatever they can spin together from today's news, even if it contradicts itself from one sentence to the next.
The Venn diagram of people who said COVID doesn't exist, COVID came from a lab to depopulate the planet, COVID is a ploy to steal Trump's presidency and COVID is just the flu is pretty much a circle. Now that one of these claims is getting some more serious consideration they go around saying "I told you so", patting themselves on the back and using their supposed early insight to add weight to the next round of fabrications, completely neglecting the fact that you would have had to ignore 95% of what they said. A coin toss would be a more credible source, but they were "right" so who cares anyway.
I don't want to speak for the conspiracy as a singular, but these clusters of conspiracies, most notably Q/anon, are just an amalgamation of weaponized cherry-picking, contrarianism and new-age gullibility, not to mention thinly veiled fascism.
Part of the reason this happens is that the people who are constantly peddling conspiracies say whatever they can spin together from today's news, even if it contradicts itself from one sentence to the next.
The Venn diagram of people who said COVID doesn't exist, COVID came from a lab to depopulate the planet, COVID is a ploy to steal Trump's presidency and COVID is just the flu is pretty much a circle. Now that one of these claims is getting some more serious consideration they go around saying "I told you so", patting themselves on the back and using their supposed early insight to add weight to the next round of fabrications, completely neglecting the fact that you would have had to ignore 95% of what they said. A coin toss would be a more credible source, but they were "right" so who cares anyway.
I don't want to speak for the conspiracy as a singular, but these clusters of conspiracies, most notably Q/anon, are just an amalgamation of weaponized cherry-picking, contrarianism and new-age gullibility, not to mention thinly veiled fascism.