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There's about five conspiracies from the 1960's that I have grown to really loathe.
JFK being the main one, but the USS Liberty incident has to be a close second.
Because I don't obsess over it, I have to look up and re-familiarize myself with the details every time it comes up.
Like all these conspiracies, the details don't add up and you CANNOT convince the believers that the mere facts are, in fact, what happened.
Well, the facts are out there, from several sources. Even better, sources that have an interest in proving the conspiracy true so as to make another source the bad guy. I keep looking them up, over and over, and I keep failing to find a version of the event that survives Occam's razor that disagrees with what the US Government, US Navy, Israeli Government and IDF say happened.
Most of the time, recently, I find that the person who cites the incident is looking, aching, for an excuse to justify their hatred of Israel.
That normally boils down to some antisemitism of some flavor.
I've had my fill of that bigotry.
Citations of OTHER conspiracy theories aren't proofs.
I think that the Charlie Kirk shooting should finally put to rest the JFK conspiracy. If one guy can do that shot from 200 yards away (a short hunting distance in Utah) then a trained marksman like Lee Harvey could do JFK just like all the private and public studies show.
ReplyDeleteAs to other conspiracies, there are people that believe the NAZIs wouldn't take time out from losing to eliminate 6 million people.
And it's weird the conspiracies that are obvious that they won't believe, like how the Palestinians, from the start, have always done the wrong thing at the wrong time. Always.
Sigh.
There are still people who believe the Apollo 1 astronauts survived. And we didn't make it to the Moon. And ignore all the evidence that shows both.
Flat-Earthers?
Yes, there are conspiracies that are actually conspiracies, but most of the ones people spout from the past, meh, not conspiracies.
It's an indicator, for me at least, that the CTs about the JFK assassination are espoused, by people who, as far as I know, have never shot anybody, or even attempted to do so. Aso the USS Liberty CTs are espoused by people who, again as far as I know, never commanded a fighting unit in a fast breaking combat action. Their concepts of how deadly violence occurs, and how real people react to it, seem to be based on TV shows and Movies and if you start from there, you are already half way down the rabbit hole.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been in the Texas book depository. I’ve stood at the window next to the one Oswald used, his is blocked off. He was a marine rifleman, I was on the high school rifle team. The city of Dallas has a painted “X” on the road surface of Dealy Plaza where JFK was first hit. I’m not bragging but I could have made that shot.
ReplyDeleteOh, and if NASA faked the moon landing, why didn’t the Soviets do it too?
Conspiracy theorists fall into one of two camps, the 20% who are mostly right and the 80% who are completely wrong. Those percentage numbers closely mirror the IQ percentiles of the adherents.
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DeleteThe Soviet Union is really our best proof of two things that people deny. The first is The Holocaust. The second is the moon landings.
It was in their interest to say those things didn't happen, and they reported them honestly. Which is a statement of how undeniable they were at the time they happened.
I remember that a large part of the JFK ct was that the shots couldn’t be replicated. Even using Marine marksmen. Then someone remembered that Oswald shot left-handed. The Marine Corps marksmen made the shots with ease. Working the bolt right -handed took too long.
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I know people who would react to the idea that anything is beyond one motivated Marine and his rifle with screams of "Persecute! Kill! Burn the heretic!" Oswald had been a Marine, and by civilian standards was a very fine shot. At that range I could have done it myself when I had younger eyes.
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