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In reply to the discussion: Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press [View all]William Seger
(10,775 posts)... "stories told to them by figures of authority."
MOST -- almost all, actually -- of what we know about the events that conspiracists love to fantasize about comes from ordinary citizens and career civil service people, and from the evidence, not from "stories told to them by figures of authority." It's just a necessary part of conspiracists' fantasies to believe that all those people are just flying monkeys who willingly do the bidding of the omnipotent "figures of authority," and that all the evidence was faked. For some strange reason, the "figures of authority" can't assassinate anyone or blow up buildings without having a hoard of these flying monkeys to carry out and cover up pointlessly complicated hoaxes and create mountains of fake evidence. Why that's necessary is never even considered, much less explained.
You "have no idea what happened that day" but it's completely inconceivable to you that the Warren Commission got it right when they reached the only conclusion that can be supported by the credible evidence?
No, I don't know for certain what happened that day, but I do have some idea how rational people arrive at their best estimation: It's called "evidence-based reasoning." As we just discovered, you're okay with Stone and hundreds of other conspiracy hucksters spreading bullshit, and then you want to claim validation simply by counting how many people have fallen for it?
I literally laughed out loud when you suggested that a trial might have the slightest impact on conspiracists. That's because conspiracists aren't "asking questions"; They are trying to sell "answers" that they can't substantiate. Anyone who is genuinely interested in getting at the truth would welcome attempts to weed out the bullshit, but no, such efforts just make conspiracists apoplectic. The one and only thing they seem to care about is how many people believe what they believe.
You jumped into this thread by claiming that only "right wingers" challenge the bullshit that conspiracy hucksters are selling and then you hypocritically started whining about "name callers" trying to "bully" people into silence. Maybe you could use a new strategy, too, but let's be clear about this: I don't give a damn about what conspiracists believe, only about what they try to sell to others without substantiation, and I wouldn't waste one minute trying to change your mind.
Here's a factoid for you: In 42 years of voting in every election cycle, I've never once voted for any Republican. That means I have unequivocal proof that your intuition is not nearly as reliable as you seem to think it is. Get over yourself.