People suffering from something like this may feel totally isolated from regular people around them and so meeting fellow sufferers online must be a great relief and comfort. Unfortunately, from their perspective, the affliction is external rather than internal.
"big pharma" => see Purdue
"pizzagate" => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Nolan_(politician) "is an American registered sex offender and former state district court judge, a former leader in the Republican Party and a former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in Campbell County, Kentucky. On February 9, 2018, he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child sex trafficking and human trafficking; on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison"
and so on.
> Tuskeegee siphilis study
And a lot of conspiracy theories are "what if this thing the US did to black people it also did to white people"
There's so much bad stuff going on, everywhere, why do people feel compelled to make stuff up?
Both parties and beyond, everyone must stop the partisan squabbling.
No, I don't care about the psyop you read on reddit.
edit: removed joke about "epstein not killing himself" because it distracted from the main point by introducing a second conspiracy theory.
"Nobody who believes in conspiracy theories has ever been a project manager."
If you've experienced how difficult it can be to cat-herd 10-20 people on some web migration project, you know how impossible it would be to have a huge group of people engaged in some goal that nearly everyone would find objectionable, be effective, and somehow manage to keep it all a secret.
It helped add a lot of clarity and understanding for different viewpoints, because you can begin an information exchange by first trying to parse what someone is skeptical about.
One person’s skepticism is another person’s conspiracy theory.
