• davel@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    We assassinated the president and covered it up so that we can more easily identify conspiracy theorists.

    How is there any utility in being able to identify a few crackpots—only the ones who happen to crack their pot on this one particular event? How is Identifying crackpots of any use to the state?

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      Think of it like an expert playing dumb to catch someone lying about their specific field of study.

      If I go out and say I’m a former government agent who had access to the must classified of classified documents, someone has to actually look into that on the off chance it’s real. If I follow by mentioning I know the truth about Kennedy, you can basically close the case there as there’s no “truth” to be known.