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When to believe conspiracy theory?

It's a tough one because rich and powerful people do act to seve their own interests, often in covert ways. However, that doesn't mean that any BS read from a dodgy website happens to be true. You need concrete proof to say something definite. To see something as even credible, I think there are three questions to consider before saying it might be true:

1) Would rich and powerful people benefit? (not just the one's I don't like)
2) Does it have a credible narrative.
3) Would it be worth the risk of exposure.

For example I never believed the 9-11 truther stuff because of number 3. All three are a yes to Iraq WMD. Pizzagate fails on every count, as does Cultural Marxism.
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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
These loonies can’t even tell me what cultural Marxism [i]is[/i] - much less what it has to do with actual Marxism.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@QuixoticSoul Absolutely. The worst is Jordan Peterson because he gives a fake intellectual gravitas to these theories. If your understanding of Post-Modernism comes from Peterson then its 'an attempt to divide people with identity politics.'

I actually thought Post-Modernism was flaky when I studied it at university. I'm not an expert on it and have little interest in it now. Though obviously, I know enough to say that the entirety of the political right is both clueless and dishonest when they invoke it. It's like how the right use 'critical race theory' and 'cultural marxism'.

The point is that these are academic and leftist-sounding terms that you can build a conspiracy around. You take advantage of the fact that your audience will never do any reading and use them as [i]floating signifiers[/i] (irony overload) for anything you don't like.