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How They Became Conspiracy-Literate: From Bush Supporter to Trump Era
from Mandalay Ray · #65
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4 minTim and Ray trace their own political awakenings, from being a teenage Bush supporter who believed in the Iraq War to realizing both parties serve corporate interests, and caution against fetishizing conspiracy theories without being persuaded by actual facts.
- 21:01Tim read about the CIA as a teenager and went deep with it.
- 21:15He was a Bush supporter during the Iraq War, got it wrong, and later discovered the torture programs.
- 21:44Both major parties became spokesmen for different factions of corporate America.
- 22:08The Boston bombing is suspicious, probably an FBI thing, but not necessarily a false flag.
- 22:27Tim warns against fetishizing conspiracy theories and relying on facts rather than jumping to conclusions.
- 22:58Going straight to Pizzagate or Sandy Hook conspiracies won't persuade anyone to care about real government wrongdoing.
- 23:11Being an adult means not concocting entire worldviews from a little bit of information.
- 23:45People claim occult practices exist and point to similarities between Satanism and Catholicism, but that doesn't mean everyone in power is a Satanist.
- 23:59Most of the worst stuff people discuss is public record, hidden in plain sight.
- 24:14Tim acknowledges there is something weird or fishy about it, but not in the way people automatically assume.
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