NSA Owns Everything (2015)

Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015) by specialist on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:22AM (#24142606)

I've long wondered how to side step the "conspiracy theorist" pejorative. Personal interest. A local newspaper called me a "sweaty paranoid kook". All true. But also a distraction from the lede.

There must be a Luntzian phrase for believing in proven conspiracies.

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Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015) by raincom on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:09PM (#24144874)

As other poster jitteriest noted already, "conspiracy theorist" labeling is used to stop having any discussion with those who are labelled as "conspiracy theorists".

The whole dialogue is skewed in the favor of those who call others "conspiracy theorists". Once labeled, no more dialogue. This is one of the dialogical moves, and conflicts with the cooperation principle to resolve disputes.

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Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015) by zerocrates on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:46AM (#24143851)

I feel like Luntz would like "conspiracy realist." Or maybe that's more of a Stallmanism.

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