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Re:Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highe... by an0malous on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:04PM (#48430754)
Why did you not believe this particular theory before? It never seemed like an outlandish idea to me at all that some US politicians could be blackmailed by foreign interests.

I don’t get this blanket rejection of “conspiracy theories”, it’s like the moment you describe something as a conspiracy theory a large group of self identified intellectuals just dismiss it offhand. It doesn’t make sense as a category, of course people conspire.

If I could propose a lesson to be learned, maybe stop categorizing things as “conspiracy theories” and take each theory on the merit of its evidence and how it fits the facts.

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Re:Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highe... by himata4113 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @08:30AM (#48434168)
It was too "popular" of a conspiracy theory to be true, it was the cognative conclusion that was attributed to israel without any real backing behind it. I think it's telling that it took this long and this much pressure to ever consider it a "threat".
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