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Why A Shocking Number Of Crazy-Sounding Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Turned Out To Be True: "Theory" doesn't mean what you think it means
Michael Shellenberger Public Substack ^ | 01/18/2023 | Michael Shellenberger

Posted on 01/18/2023 6:04:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind

"Theory" doesn't mean what you think it means...

The World Economic Forum, governments around the world, and the mainstream news media are sounding the alarm in Davos about crazy-sounding, right-wing conspiracy theories. And it’s easy to see why: conspiracy theories are prima facie silly. The boring truth is that people and institutions are terrible at keeping secrets.

And yet, a shocking number of crazy-sounding right-wing conspiracy theories have, recently, turned out to be true:

The people who allege that the above were, and remain, “conspiracy theories,” say that World Economic Forum is just a gabfest, the FBI was simply doing what bipartisan majorities in Congress and the President agreed was necessary after Russian election interference on the 2016 elections, and government officials and social media executives were doing the best they could with the information they had during a fast-moving pandemic where millions of lives were at stake.

But if the World Economic Forum is a gabfest, it is also, including in its own opinion, enormously powerful, with its founder, Klaus Schwab, playing a mysteriously large role within the G-20 organization of world leaders.

Russian influence over the 2016 election was massively overstated, and the FBI went far beyond what Congress and the President asked and appears to have carried out an orchestrated campaign to deliberately misinform the media and social media platforms about the Hunter Biden laptop, which it had in its possession.

And while Monday morning quarterbacking on covid often goes too far, it’s also the case that Twitter and Facebook censored qualified people who were expressing a reasonable point of view about the vaccines and suppressed factually-accurate vaccine information.

What’s more, all of the above raise significant concerns about the current state of Western democracy.

A rich, secretive, and unelected person, Klaus Schwab, is exercising a weirdly large influence over world leaders on the Left and Right, from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The FBI, the most important law enforcement organization in the world, is under the control of people who have shown great comfort in abusing the warrant process, leaking to the press, and influencing journalists and social media executives in what appears to be deliberate influence operations, known as IOs, and which used to be known as psyops.

And everybody from Davos to the White House to the mainstream corporate news media are using claims of “disinformation” and “misinformation” whether coming from Russians, 4chan, or Harvard professors, as excuses to censor social media platforms.

Why is that, exactly? Why did so many crazy-sounding right-wing conspiracy theories turn out to be true? And why are the elites behaving so undemocratically?

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The control of publicly-available information over the last 10 years by WEF, the White House, and intelligence agencies including the FBI has been remarkable. Cushy gabfests like the ones in Aspen and Davos are effective in making journalists subservient to elites. The ability of government agencies like the White House and FBI to abuse their power is particularly strong when they have the support of the majority of the public, as was the case with Covid and with Trump, whose support hovered between just 35 and 45 percent. And the centralization of power in a small number of social media sites — mostly Facebook and Twitter — created an opportunity to bully politicians and government officials to deprive hundreds of millions of people of true information and feed them false information.

But all of the above are retrograde attempts to put the Internet genie back in the bottle and thus doomed to fail. The takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk showed how fragile the control of social media platforms was. Musk not only made public just how much control the FBI exercised over Twitter, he also has destroyed the older blue checkmark verification system that biased the whole system toward woke-WEF ideology, or what Martin Gurri calls the “one-sided politics of identity and ecology.”

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Change is coming. A growing number of people understand that they must pay for news and information from trustworthy and independent sources, ones without financials conflict of interest, and who make their values and beliefs explicit, rather than hide them...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; democratcoup; ftxdonationstodems; ftxwhslackchannel; klausschwab; qtardnutcase; rumpschwab; trumprussiahoax; truth; wef
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1 posted on 01/18/2023 6:04:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

"THEORY"


2 posted on 01/18/2023 6:04:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmrk.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 6:07:32 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SeekAndFind

What about Jeffrey Epstein? When I heard about that on Free Republic in 2006 or before, it sounded to unbelievable.


4 posted on 01/18/2023 6:07:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm a conspiracy Theoremist. The conspiracy has been proven with Euclidean rigor.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 6:09:50 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have never seen that movie, but the meme just makes me laugh every single time...:)


6 posted on 01/18/2023 6:10:23 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth
6 months


7 posted on 01/18/2023 6:10:58 PM PST by blitz128
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To: SeekAndFind

I am a conspiracy realist.


8 posted on 01/18/2023 6:14:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind
a shocking number of crazy-sounding right-wing conspiracy theories have, recently, turned out to be true:

Like every deranged sounding word and sentence that came out of Alex Jones's mouth.

9 posted on 01/18/2023 6:14:54 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Conspiracy theory” = spoiler alert.


10 posted on 01/18/2023 6:15:57 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: SeekAndFind
And while Monday morning quarterbacking on covid often goes too far

I think the author needs to cite time and palce and justify the assertion with facts, because the whole subject is so fraud riddled that I don't think there is anything to save.

11 posted on 01/18/2023 6:18:52 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I just put “QED” after I write anything, and it’s true.

QED..
(see)


12 posted on 01/18/2023 6:19:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Any government representative attending this should be arrested for treason right after their plane lands.


13 posted on 01/18/2023 6:25:23 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper

The Davos crap fest, that is.


14 posted on 01/18/2023 6:26:23 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: FreedomPoster

I also am a conspiracy realist.
My pronouns are Told You So


15 posted on 01/18/2023 6:36:41 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: rlmorel

“I have never seen that movie...”

It really is a classic and one of those rare films that’s enjoyable for all ages. Yes, it’s from Rob Reiner, but in some miraculous way even that boob didn’t ruin it.


16 posted on 01/18/2023 6:40:36 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Taxman

Ping


17 posted on 01/18/2023 6:41:16 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Right wing conspiracies - true

Left wing conspiracies - false

The truth only comes out after it’s too late.

The media is the problem. They’ve been bought and paid for by their fellow criminals in Washington.


18 posted on 01/18/2023 6:49:15 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: SeekAndFind

Saw a meme the other day…..

Picture of JFK riding through Dallas

The caption was something to the effect of: when you realize that the worlds first conspiracy theory turns out to be true.


19 posted on 01/18/2023 7:02:43 PM PST by qaz123
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To: rlmorel

Great movie


20 posted on 01/18/2023 7:03:12 PM PST by qaz123
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