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Re:Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Conspiracy ... by Nasrudith on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:25PM (#41801728)
When hasn't it been mainstream? It sure qualified as mainstream for JFK assassinations and arguably Roswell as well. And that is before going to the Know-Nothings and their anti-catholic conspiracy theories.
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Re:Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Conspiracy ... by arp242 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:55PM (#41805096)
Conspiracy theories about JFK, Roswell, moon-landings, and things like that are basically harmless. Well, mostly harmless anyway. Usually spread by someone trying to flog some nonsense book, or a confused "true believer".

But this is different: it's just a plain ordinary self-serving lie. Completely invented by a sad narcissistic liar and his merry band of sycophantic enablers to win ("win") an election.

There's also a type of maliciousness to it that's lacking in more traditional conspiracy theories.

We probably shouldn't even call it "conspiracy theory".

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