Its meaningless now, just like yelling racism. It means nothing.
It is very effective.
Weaponized to control information and to promote disinformation. (distract from real conspiracies)
It was never weaponized. Ity has always been an accurate term to describe morons.
Youer own links and citations prove this.
ANy intelligent argument? So far Angelo has been proven wrong what do you have?
According to the dictionary, a “conspiracy” is simply an agreement to perform an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. In light of that, one would have to be extremely naive or retarded to believe that conspiracies don’t exist. Of course they do. Unless you live in some alternate reality where nobody ever does anything wrong? Politicians are honest, honorable individuals and powerful people never use their power for self-serving purposes? If that’s the world you live in, then you’re right, conspiracies don’t exist.
To me it doesn’t even matter who originally came up with the phrase “conspiracy theory” because the more important point is that it absolutely
has been used as a weapon to disparage, marginalize and silence anyone who questions official government narratives. You act as if it’s a bad thing to ask questions, or for people to investigate claims on their own rather than automatically accept whatever we’re being spoon-fed. You act as if it’s “smart” to trust the government, and stupid to think that they would ever lead people astray. I find attitudes like yours ignorant and disgusting, especially when it’s coupled with arrogance, which it usually is.
All one has to do is look at history to see that governments and powerful people are not the angels you fools make them out to be. It’s a GOOD thing that people question and look into certain events that warrant actual investigation. But coming back to the main point here, unfortunately there has been a war against any people who don’t blindly go along with official narratives, as the word “conspiracy theorist” is now a pejorative label. And useful idiots like some on this thread perpetuate that, which I’m sure pleases the powers-that-shouldn't-be, as you’re doing their work for them.