I believe the CIA killed JFK. Come to think of it, I'm a real tinfoil hat guy. I believe most of them. I guess I don't buy the Freemasonry stuff.
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I won't say I believe the CIA did it but I think at least they know who did it.
I really think anyone who can't name one they don't believe needs to check their gullibility.
Same goes for anyone that doesn't believe any of them. What I used to tell people like that is many things were theory until they were exposed. Watergate is a great example.
I also remember during the Covid times people I knew that didn't buy what the government was telling them but then they'd believe some random dude on social media obviously shilling a product and spewing non-sense. And I'm not talking about the many doctors or people with evidence behind them. I'm talking about the real crackpots.
I have a theory that US citizens have had it so good that we have far to much trust in government and other people. Most of the people I know that came out of oppressed nations do not share this attribute. They seem to be far more skeptical of authority and people trying to scam them.
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I agree completely. I do notice a change regarding U.S. citizens trusting the government. Regular middle of the road folks I know don't accept things at face value post covid. Even mask and vax democratic friends have changed. They saw the man behind the curtain once too often.
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Yeah, I really have no time for elites that complain about the public's loss of confidence. They want to blame conspiracy theorists for this and "fake news" but really the media and "establishment" absolutely destroyed their credibility over the past few years. Anyone who paid attention during the last 3 years and didn't see at least some deception on the part of media and government is hopeless. There are different levels of skepticism but institutions in not only government but also medicine lied to the masses. They may tell themselves they did it for the right reasons but one day when an even worse situation comes along people will not listen. And maybe when that happens they should listen. Its the old boy that cried wolf. You can only yell that everything is a world ending catastrophe so many times before it loses its weight.
I remember being surprised at how little changed after Snowden's revelations. It taught me something. Most people just do not care. They just want to carry on believing their fantasy. Trusting in institutions. It seems the response to Covid changed that for many. In my view, the elites let the mask slip a bit to much. At a minimum a lot of evil people know how much nonsense they can get away with now.
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I was just talking about the boy who cried wolf aspect the other day. They created a dangerous loss of confidence. Snowden- now there was a real eye opener for me. Many of my friends were furious at him for being a traitor. They bought the smoke screen. No matter how many times I tried to discuss the revelations, no one cared.
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Yeah, I have friends with the same view on Snowden. I would point out that the people that are supposed to hold these agencies accountable (Senators) failed to do their jobs as well as the law not being equally enforced on the actors in these agencies.
Its quiet ironic to me with people I know that claim to hate Communism how OK they are with the US building something far more powerful than the KGB in our "free country". At what point do you say I'm not OK with this? We "defeated" Communism just to create our own slave nation. Its absurd.
I think it is just physiologically hard to admit you've been duped. Or that something so fundamental to your beliefs has been a lie. Some of us are wired to handle this better than others. Denial is a very common response.
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Indeed, even Bitcoiners from the Western world trusting Bukele or Milei 😂🥴
Never trust politicians kids!
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Exactly. Nobody knows what's to come the second Bukele steps down or is removed from office. People upping and moving to El Salvador are in for a world of hurt when this realization kicks in.
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A country is build in the span of centuries and destroyed in a couple of decades..
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