like we have some photographic evidence of factions that were fighting in the syrian civil war of fabricating photos of dead kids (chicken blood and a cooperative kid). the goal being to stoke western outrage and intervention.

But to deny the original existence of children is a very horrid form of evil.

yeah, it is. but if you believe in one conspiracy it gets easier to build other conspiracies into it. everything trying to convince you the conspiracy theory is wrong is ***THEM*** trying to trick you. whoever you think ***THEY*** are.

its it really that hard to conceptualize people believing highly politized events are false flags

"That's a crazy conspiracy theory. You shouldn't believe in that kind of nonsense"
"GASP! You're in on it aren't you>?!?"

before you know it, the jews are behind everything

False flags can happen. I won't deny that it is important to investigate the actual facts behind terrible acts.

It could probably be pulled off, if someone put in a lot of effort

But to deny that the terrible act happened in the first place when we have corroborating reports is damaging.

but it would need to have some sort of payoff

We need more actual reporters to actually physically go on the ground where events happen and film the details themselves. But that doesn't make money. Hyper-partisan commentary does.

typically the problem with most conspiracy theories is the amount of money and people who would need to be kept quite.

So we have a dozen left-wing talking heads all regurgitating information from one or two sources at best, which is quite easy to manipulate.

The larger the conspiracy the less likely that it can maintain itself over time

Yes, for sure. But that's not the only problem.

Like we've known about JournoList for years. But if you try to tell someone about it they think you're nuts.

Demoralization has taken hold.

Tried to explain to my mom about the Podesta hack and how it exposed collusion between the Hillary campaign and the media. She wouldn't believe me even when I showed her the emails.

Also, depending on how people get the news, hearing contradictions later by sources they don't trust, they would continue to believe the lie

Like we've see shit where outlets report fake news, and they never correct it

even when disproven

Shitty news outlets publishing information without vetting and then neglecting to correct.

Like 9/11. All the completely unfounded rumors that were spouted on air as if they were verified fact.

Every shooting or terrorist attack they always, always mention a possible second gunman even without a shred of evidence.

Have to be the first to get the scoop so you make the money.

And the truth is nearly irrelevant as far as their bottom line is concerned.

We're awash in so much contradictory or untrustworthy information that we can't tell fact from fiction even when we're presented with the verified truth. Demoralized.

On the left people believe to the core of their being that the Proud Boys are nazi skinheads or something, even though every five minutes they're saying they're not and some of their leadership are Latino and Native American.

Just sayin the town Bielefeld does not exist. /s

People build, maintain, and *defend* a narrative despite any objective facts to the contrary, because in our chaotic partisan information-overloaded world that's the only way to stay sane.

Some of those people, who are probably not particularly stable or intelligent to begin with, build narratives based on conspiracies. And they will just keep maintaining them and defending them regardless. You can present them with the best information, audio, video, testimony, whatever, and they'll use that to reinforce their existing view of the world.

We all do it to a certain degree.

Watergate started as a conspiracy theory that turned out to be right.

Up until Snowden the NSA monitoring everything you do was a nutty conspiracy.

So yeah, it doesn't help that sometimes they're true.

We desperately need the news media to return to boring, unbiased, non-partisan reporting of the facts, as recorded by their own employees on the ground.

Wire services and freelancers are great and all, but if the entire industry is using one source then that's a problem.

I doubt it will happen since the MSM have reduced their correspondents corps.

We need fewer $100M studios and more boots on the ground.

Totally agree

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