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marksea | 4 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +6 
 So does Whitney Webb just think that there are no genuine events in the world? It has to be exhausting claiming that literally everything that happens in life is a psyop.

Getting to the point of the CIA creating the term “conspiracy theory” tbh.
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CitizenPleb | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 When you got a hammer? 🤷‍♂️
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Byzantine | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 listening to her is exhausting and completely unproductive.

simple: 
-people are self interested 
-many powerful people are dumb
-dumb people in power make dumb decisions
-since all the dumb people want power, they often work together to get more power
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marksea | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I like some of her work, but she just throws out black pill after black pill and never really offers any real solutions.
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The Beave | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Well... She's right about a lot of things, though...
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marksea | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I agree, and I do like a lot of her stuff, but it gets to a certain point (for me) where it’s almost counterproductive. Throwing the baby out with the bath water and makes people feel hopeless. That nothing that happens is real anymore. Seems like discrediting certain events that may be genuine.
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The Beave | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fair point.

I do think this was a conspiracy to assassinate trump, though. Just looking at the plain facts from yesterday, that building should have been covered. The response was trash. The guy just happened to miss. (5? times... Geez) all of those things are very real failings.