Can I ask why are some people who question things called a conspiracy theorist, idiots or thick?? Honestly how are these people thick just because they don’t believe everything they’re told.
A conspiracy theorist questions and chooses to believe the most convoluted explanation, without question.
It’s a very lazy way of slapping people down with one snappy phrase. Some people follow and disseminate every wacky theory going, without ever questioning or engaging their brains; some people only ever believe what the government or BBC tell them as gospel and believe everybody who doesn't do the same to be a renegade lunatic; most of us are somewhere in between.
A conspiracy is just something (usually taken to be criminal or sinister) that was planned in secret between two or more people – it’s a relatively neutral term. You could legitimately say that most judges are conspiracy theorists, if they’ve ever sentenced somebody for conspiracy to murder/defraud/commit any kind of crime. Yes, they've believed all of the evidence presented to them, but if they weren't actually there, they couldn't 100% know it to be undeniably true.
I don’t believe that COVID-19 is a hoax, but I am somewhat ‘open-minded’ as to the wisdom of how governments around the world have reacted to it – and whether that relates to incompetence, ulterior motives, hidden agendas – who knows. I do believe that a good proportion of people said to have died OF it may have died WITH it, especially considering how few tests have been made available and how much distance diagnosis has been carried out.
What I find incredible is that you can question almost anything official that comes out of China or Russia; indeed, you’ll be ridiculed if you DO accept it as automatically true, but for some reason, if you ever approach anything that a western government proclaims with any scepticism, you’re a crazy deranged flat-earther conspiracy theorist.
One of the most influential conspiracy theorists was David Rockefeller – one of the richest people who ever lived. He even believed that he was a part of it! He wrote this in his memoirs:
”Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - One World, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Rockefeller also said this when addressing the Tri-Lateral Commission:
”We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
It would seem that the deranged conspiracy-nut lunacy goes right to the very top - yet this man was highly regarded and his counsel followed by many world leaders.
After I see a theory I always do a quick fact check and 99 percent of the time it's fake.
How do you do the fact check, though, and how do you know that it’s fake? How can you know that the fact-checkers are all completely above board and/or haven’t been compromised or infiltrated? Have you fact-checked the credentials and characters behind everybody working for Snopes and their ilk or do you simply take their word for it that you can't take the word of anybody whom they claim to be fake?
I always think to the case of the inquest about Diana’s death. There were many people suggesting that her death had been directly planned by Prince Philip and/or other royals. The inquest was held and it was found that it was nothing more than a tragic accident, likely caused or exacerbated by the actions of a few non-royals with low-level motives (such as papping exclusive photos), but absolutely no malicious intent. However, just imagine that Prince Philip had planned and engineered it all, maybe conspiring with other extremely powerful people with the belief that this act might somehow further some evil globalist plot, or simply because he utterly hated her for what he might have believed she had done to his family. Supposing he had fully set out to murder Diana, for whatever motive. Do you expect that the official top-level inquest would have found him guilty? Do you suppose that any ‘independent’ fact-checkers would have put their heads above the parapet and felt confident (and brave enough) to be able to confirmed that the belief of those suspecting the foul-play that ‘did actually happen’ (in our imaginary consideration) was actually true?
There are extremists - at both ends - and those at each end believe themselves to have the whole truth and their opposites to be utter deranged fools. I certainly don't think the truth is as black and white as that.