Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
by posix_me_less on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:24AM
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> the citizenry would be up in arms if there were indisputable proof that our government orchestrated
Not so sure about that. Large portion of population does believe that and they are not up in arms.
Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
by shadowgovt on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:20AM
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It's not a wide enough margin. The Scrips 2006 poll suggested around 16% think it's "very likely" someone in the US government either assisted or took no action (as frame of reference, Pew Research suggests between 4 and 7% of respondent input is "bogus"... Not just random, but intentionally biased towards the most unlikely answer to troll the pollsters [https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2020/02/18/assessing-the...]).
2006?!?!?!?!?!?!
Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
by shadowgovt on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:07PM
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That was the generous year. Belief has waned since then.
Statista probed the question in 2019 and found strong belief at 11%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/959504/belief-september-...
In contrast, the bulk of the citizenry would be up in arms if there were indisputable proof that our government orchestrated a terrorist attack on American soil that killed thousands of people.
Evidence: the reaction to the Snowden leaks. Lots of Americans responded to that news with "oh okay; that's a rational thing for the NSA to be doing to combat terrorism."