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Comment by pjc50

You can't address conspiracy theories because they can be generated much easier and quicker than they can be rebutted. And attempts to do so just mark you as "part of the conspiracy".

"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1964), prev on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24964931

(Although I might be inclined to agree with you that there are real, very obvious, unaddressed "conspiracies" that kind of happen while simultaneously everyone is aware of them but can't "see" them. Mostly to do with the operation of political donations, but things like the Sackler opiate scandal had evidence ignored for years. Or the Clarence Thomas bribery allegations.)

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