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shawn | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +18 
 Don’t trust. Verify. 

But also, do the most basic level of research, for the love of god. Not everything’s a conspiracy.
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kidwarp | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That’s a conspiracy
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Buddha | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Who’s paying you to say that? 😂😂😂
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mrclownworld | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A conspiracy is people working together in secret to commit crimes.

Secrecy and criminality are subjective, only collaboration is objective. 

So you can’t get everyone to agree on something being a secret or a crime, and though you can probably get everyone to agree on something being collaboration, collaboration is not itself a bad thing. 

So you can never objectively label something a conspiracy. It’s impossible. 

But you also cannot objectively say that every collaboration isn’t a conspiracy. 

So… everything *could* be a conspiracy… 🧐
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shawn | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 You’ve made my point nicely.
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signal_and_rizz | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🤔
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The Bird | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Seems like something the feds would say to stir up controversial conspiracies
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Sergio | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They got to you 👀🤣
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cynic | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Source?