Why You Should Believe more Conspiracy Theories

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According to what?

Chaim Weizmann, in a letter to Churchill, acknowledges that it was they who tipped the balance of power in the United States in favor of the Entente in World War I.

Yes, but it was in the context of the First World War and very likely just an opportunistic act. It doesn't prove that they had deep-seated hatred especially against the Germans.

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Yes, but it was in the context of the First World War and very likely just an opportunistic act. It doesn't prove that they had deep-seated hatred especially against the Germans.

Yes, if placing a powerful country against you, the result of which was territorial, population and commercial disintegration, is not profound hatred, imagine what profound hatred is, right?

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Of course! All hitmen must have a burning hatred for their targets too! It can't be that they are just indifferent!

German Jews were also negatively affected by the First World War. Many German Jews lost their lives or the lives of their relatives. Many had their economic situation worsened.

"An estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action. The Iron Cross was awarded to 18,000 German Jews during the war."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_ ... orld_War_I

[Wahrheitssucher]

Many of the points Ryan makes mirror my own thoughts. The point about whistleblowers is a good one: "Someone would come forward."
People often do come forward but more often they get ignored, dismissed, smeared, or worse.

Here's another point I would make:
Governments (all institutions for that matter) have an incentive to lie/obscure the truth in instances where the truth would be embarrassing or conflicts with their interests (which is often). And governments/institutions have quite a bit of control over what information becomes available.

If you dismiss all conspiracy theories out of hand unless there is conclusive proof, you would likely be getting only the tip of the iceberg.
However, the problem is that if you try to guess about the hidden parts of the iceberg, things get very speculative. So what you end up with is a situation where "the truth" if it were known would be wildly "conspiratorial" yet at the same time most "conspiracy theories" may be wrong (even idiotic) because there are a lot of them and they are typically based on incomplete information.

What I find interesting is there are many explosive claims that actually do have quite a lot of evidence to support them. And you can even find this stuff in mainstream books. But it doesn't find itself into the mainstream conversation, or into school curricula, or into the mass media.

This goes back to the recent thread "Red-pilled by the mainstream." Scholarly texts (which few people read) can have some surprisingly explosive info.

I thought the above deserves a repeat…