We’ve got a bunch of new people now so let’s bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?
I’ll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
between Rev Left, Chapo, TrueAnon, and Citations Needed, someone on those shows has to be an asset and I’ve been listening intently to try to sus them out.
the police infiltrate the left, obviously, but they’re usually quiet guys, listeners, hiding in plain sight, rather than people with huge platforms who tend to either be sincere or opportunists/grifters, but not usually assets unless they get “turned” after police dig up some dirt on them or whatever. I think the real psy-op is not these shows, but the fact that the police, FBI, CIA, etc., despite making up about 0.3% of the US population at best, constantly make leftists paranoid of each other in forums and mass organizations
0.3% of the US population is massive
Have you read COINTELPRO where literally every single remotely left wing group, including even union groups, environmental activist groups, and animal rights groups with literally even 5 members were all infiltrated during the peak of the Cold War
That’s fair, but I also think Brace Belden is too funny to be a real person
Nah, there have been protagonists like Brace through history and across cultures. Like Yasuke, a famous retainer of Oda Nobunaga who originally hailed from Africa. Or Lord Byron, who was the original type of guy on which all other types of guys were based. Mary Shelley was so fed up with his bullshit she invented science fiction just to have an excuse to get away from him. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, A sort of semi-independent commando who worked with the KGB, Stasi, PFLP, and others during the cold war, fought France, doing much better than you would expect one guy to do. Dude’s serving several life sentences right now. Julie d’Aubigny killed a number of men in duels, wounded a few who ended up becoming her friends and lovers, and once notoriously burned down a convent to rescue her girlfriend, leaving an actual dead body in her girlfriend’s cell so people would think she’d died in the fire. Zhuge Liang was the most person in 3rd century China. At one point he had to defend a key city, but his army was still several days away while the enemy army was within site of the gate. His solution was to sit outside the gate, drink tea, and play sitar. When the general of the enemy army was told that Zhuge Liang had the gates of the city open, no soldiers on the wall, and he was just sitting outside jamming without a care in teh world the enemy general was like “nope. Not putting up with his bullshit today.” and took his entire army somewhere else to fight reasonable people.
The world is full of protagonists. They come, they go, and they lead very interesting lives.
Liz is definitely not a fed and she’s too smart to be tricked into working with a fed and so Brace is not a fed.
in terms of pure theory and knowledge Rev Left and the extended Breht Cinematic Universe (Guerilla History, Red Menace) is the best of them. the rest just are like “gee shucks look at this event heres some leftist commentary” meanwhile f you go into Rev Left you will come out with so much communism you will be seeing blue and green because the red particles in your eyes have condensed into your heart
the FAIR org that the CN people write for has taken some sus grants if I remember right
Teaching people that US media is a propaganda machine seems a bit counterproductive for Feds.
