My rule of thumb with conspiracy theories is that it's extremely difficult to maintain a conspiracy with more than a dozen people. So I always ask how many people would have to be in on this to pull it off?
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that’s the part about the theories that always gets me. these grand, huge, earth-spanning conspiracies are nonsense to me since most elites who would have the means and the motive to pull off them off can’t help but prove themselves incompetent.
case in point: the last 30 or so years