benjoshua wrote in Happy Thanksgiving:
It's interesting to me that most conspiracy theories only contain true facts.  A problem with conspiracy theories are the facts they omit or disdain.  

You’re absolutely correct.  The problem is that the vast majority of us have no idea what’s omitted (if anything).  The mechanisms of power lend themselves to these fears/theories.

ashmire13 wrote in Happy Thanksgiving:Someone once said to me, that a conspiracy theory is only a conspiracy theory when it doesn’t have any facts to support it.

That's what they want you to believe.

But surely a conspiracy theory is just a rough guess at something? If it’s got facts, it’s not a conspiracy anymore, but actual fact and therefore true?

Technically, does that mean the moon landing isn’t true? That’s a conspiracy theory after all

ashmire13 wrote in Happy Thanksgiving:But surely a conspiracy theory is just a rough guess at something? If it’s got facts, it’s not a conspiracy anymore, but actual fact and therefore true?

The concept of fact is malleable. If you understand something to be a fact, and have factual evidence to support your conclusion, that does not mean that society accepts the existence of the fact. If the highest court in the land decrees that something did happen when you can prove it did not, then the country by definition, has defined what the fact is. Facts can be denied, and if society around you sides with the deniers, you are by definition, a liar.

You seem to be conflating 'fact' with 'truth', and truth is something that does not change, and for the most part it is something you will never know.

The left wing liberals are trying to destroy the concept of 'truth' also. They realize that truth is very damaging and dangerous, and they need to rebrand it as 'my truth' or 'is or her truth' and make out that everyone has their own truth because we're all special little snowflakes, and that no one truth carries any ore weight that any anyone else's truth.

But as some white kids in Kenosha found out, a persons truth about how good and righteous they were when they wanted to loot and burn black owned businesses, changed quickly when someone blew a fucking hole in them. Maybe America would heal a lot quicker if the idiot without the permit to carry his handgun (the one with the shark bite out of his arm) was given jail time, but I don't imagine they have the balls to do that, 'cos all the little snowflakes would cry. The attitude that is being portrayed abroad is, fuck enforcing the law. Let the people do it. We've got war with China to prepare for, and the only way we stand a chance is to make sure the people at home have learned to be obedient.

Not wearing a mask - Sack the fuckers. Push them into poverty and deny them health care. If they can't feed their kids, call the CPS.
Carrying a loaded hand gun without a permit and pointing it at a stranger - Sorry. I didn't mean to. No problem. You walk free.
How fucked up is that value system?

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