Alan: What I despise most about "the conspiracist mindset" is how it always nourishes the political fortunes of neo-fascists like Alex Jones and Donald Trump whose presidential aspirations began with his bogus "Birther" claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories
Conspiracists have created a cottage industry, confident of their ability to take ANY event and -- through a witch's brew of faked "evidence," innuendo, "confirmation bias," nearly ubiquitous gullibility and disregard (if not contempt) for intellectual rigor -- "prove" that the targeted event was conspiratorial.
Here's "the thing"...
Even if every alleged conspiracy is proven true -- even if Hillary was sex trafficking in the basement of a New Jersey pizzeria -- any conceivable political good that might be gained through conspiracism is vanishingly insignificant alongside the sociopathic barbarism that emerges from Trump's White House like a backed up sewer.
Tragically, it is impossible to persuade "professional" conspiracists to adopt a "meta-level view" since conspiracy theories only "hold up" (at least to their own satisfaction) if they stay focused on minutiae like "the superabundance of porta-potties behind the Newtown, Connecticut police station," or photos that allegedly show the same "crisis actors" globetrotting to participate in scores of mass murder dramatizations. That said, anyone with a single functioning synapse knows that photographic evidence is not just "somewhat" manipulable, but "totally" manipulable.
If a skilled photo-geek decides to create a pornographic photograph of Mother Theresa humping Pope John Paul II, such an image could be created out of the blue, pixel by pixel - and the resulting photo would be totally convincing.
There is also a cesspool of conspiracism larger than Trump's Swamp and its bottom feeder par excellence, Alex Jones, runs InfoWars, a talk show that recently promoted "the breaking story" of a child slave colony on Mars that convinced so many people NASA deemed it necessary to issue a denial. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/alex-jones-obliges-nasa-to-deny-its.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories
Barack Obama Citizenship Conspiracy Theories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories
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