Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month agoThe way RFK makes (coherent) arguments in public is streets ahead of Biden and Trump, but so is almost any politician.
In terms of honesty, RFK is between Biden and Trump. Half truths and populism, rather than the full lies of Trump.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
No, it isn’t. He’s a conspiracy theorist. Voting for him is endorsing conspiracy theorists.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Tuskegee experiment is not the same as Flat Earth. Conspiracy theories are not a homogeneous and neither are conspiracy theorists.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The Tuskegee Experiment was not a conspiracy theory. So, in that sense you’re right.
Conspiracy theories and theorists are homogenous: the flawed thinking is inherent to the concept. Conspiracy theories are untrue by definition, and nothing to do with real conspiracies.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck off. The Tuskegee Experiment was a conspiracy. A group of people secretly performed illegal medical experiments on the African American population.
Only within each conspiracy. Oliver Stone believes the JFK conspiracy theory but I doubt he believes the elite are literallypolo lizard people.
Incorrect. An illegal agreement between two or more parties has no connection to how logical the process is of whoever is suspicious.
Incorrect. They are unproven by definition. They may be true or false.
Real (I assume you mean proven) conspiracies start off as theories.