Oswald did it, and everything that followed is thanks to Jack Ruby wanting to be a hero and the Warren Commission being scared shitless at the public being certain that the President had been whacked by a commie.
I thought the theory was Oswald missed so the SS had to do the job instead. Kennedy’s failure to launch the Nikes after Cuba being seen as intolerably soft by the warhawks.
This, hard. Can you imagine all the crew that would be necessary to not only load the chem-trail mass onto the plane while concealing that they had done so (in plain view of a whole concourse full of passengers), but also the engineers needed to calculate fuel/trajectory with its dispersement?
Schrödinger’s Politician; simultaneously too incompetent to organize a trip to Wendy’s while organizing a vast conspiracy to take/maintain power and keep everyone involved quiet
Two initial filter questions when encountering a conspiracy theory:
1. Could this be explained by mistakes or incompetence (by either the alleged conspirators or audience)?
2. Would achieving the objectives of the conspiracy reduce the amount of effort and attention required of the conspirators?
RIGHT! I’m always saying this, if our government (or whoever we’re discussing) can’t get anything straight in public, how could they POSSIBLY be doing sneaky organized competent things behind closed doors? It’s always worse chaos behind every curtain everywhere in the human experience.
Hannah Arendt's phrase, in her book _Eichmann in Jerusalem_, was "the banality of evil".
It looks tempting from a distance. But up close it's just an ugly and disgusting pile of the same old boring crap, over and over. Utterly uncreative and unimaginative.
Depends on the theory - there are several types. 🙃 For example, the Tonkin Bay incident was a conspiracy theory until it was confirmed. Apple nerfing the iPhone 6 battery? Same thing. Then there's the Melania body double (the one with jowls) - not all of them presuppose amazing competence. ;)
But also... The Manhattan Project during WW2 was absolutely huge - to the point where they even plucked the top high schoolers to help crunch the numbers. But the public at large didn't know or suspect, aside from maybe a few cranks. That, at least, stayed secret for years.
Oh, for sure - there were spies all over the place. 🙃 But the OP's point was that any sufficiently huge conspiracy couldn't possibly be kept secret for long - and the Manhattan Project was probably the biggest successful secret. (Kept from people, not from other governments.)
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1. Could this be explained by mistakes or incompetence (by either the alleged conspirators or audience)?
2. Would achieving the objectives of the conspiracy reduce the amount of effort and attention required of the conspirators?
It looks tempting from a distance. But up close it's just an ugly and disgusting pile of the same old boring crap, over and over. Utterly uncreative and unimaginative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
This later led to me disbelieving most conspiracies
Like sure we fucked around in Chile and a lot of South America but the reason we know is no one kept secrets
But also... The Manhattan Project during WW2 was absolutely huge - to the point where they even plucked the top high schoolers to help crunch the numbers. But the public at large didn't know or suspect, aside from maybe a few cranks. That, at least, stayed secret for years.
Those that are "in power" that believe it don't really run their team, or they are just lying PoS's.