• greenskye@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    It’s never that I think they aren’t evil enough, I just don’t trust conspiracies that require too much competency. I think most of them are too dumb and uncoordinated to pull off most of the conspiracies I hear about.

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      8 days ago

      If you’ve ever tried to coordinate more than 50 people to do a thing, you quickly realize why people refer to management and leadership jobs as “herding cats.”

      If someone gave me the option of faking the moon landing or going to the moon, I’d gladly strap a submarine to a missile.

      It be fucking impossible to coordinate hundreds of people on the world’s biggest secret, then make them and their families abide by media training for half a century.

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        Unless you’re working on something incredibly important, and you can threaten people with jail time if you tell anyone. The US government kept the SR-71 blackbird secret for about a decade, for example.

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          True, but also I feel like that’s small potatoes by comparison.

          And also I feel like it’s related to the publicity of the thing that is supposedly a conspiracy. with the sr71 nobody even knew to look into it; with the moon landing, people were following the very public demonstrations every step of the way.

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            7 days ago

            Also the difference in wow factor.
            Its “we are making an even faster, better and more stealthy plane than all the previous ones we have” vs “we are convincing the entire world that we are leaving our actual planet to fly through space and land on the moon”. One of these is a significantly more juicy secret to impress someone with.

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        I think there’s a danger in underestimating a government’s ability to keep a secret especially when they have the power to kill you and your family if you break it. While we shouldn’t overestimate the conspiracies they conduct (i.e. the world isn’t flat, we did land on the moon, vaccines don’t cause autism). I think it’s reasonable to suspect that your government is keeping some important information out of the public eye. Oft for the reason of “national security” aka, it would be embarrassing to us if this leaked.

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          It’s not the size of the organization, it’s the size of the team with a particular piece of information, and the monetary or moral pressure to release a particular piece of information.

          Also, the NSA famously has had leakers. The biggest and most notable being Snowden in 2013.

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            7 days ago

            A dozen leakers from a secret police that has employed hundreds of thousands, across decades, is not the example you think it is.

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        It be fucking impossible to coordinate hundreds of people on the world’s biggest secret, then make them and their families abide by media training for half a century.

        Yes you can. The Manhattan Project was the blueprint for this.

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      Yeah, especially the COVID conspiracies are mostly brain dead stuff

      The whole world pretty much stopped, which helps absolutely no one, but somehow those guys think, that a dark force is trying to kill the economy for…profit?

      Also all the scientists and doctors are together in bed and just want people to stay indoors, because… I have absolutely no clue

      It just didn’t make sense from the start.

      Although I do get scepticism against new vaccine methods, but when someone tries to “explain” to me, that mRNA somehow overwrites my DNA and I should drink bleach instead…I usually don’t even know where to start to correct them

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        especially the COVID conspiracies

        • Lab leak initially labelled as a conspiracy theory.

        • Darpa proposal to perform GoF research on coronaviruses.

        • Airborne transmission actually true.

        • Vaccine doesn’t stop transmission

        • Natural Immunity providing superior protection (no science supporting vaccine mandates for recovered patients).

        • Event 201 plan followed to the letter.

        • Government sponsored censoring of social media

        • Vaccine nanoparticles

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          The only one you sourced doesn’t say anything about what you claim. I’m not denying that there are some questions here that need answering but most of this is just bullshit.