Isnt that just a bunch of conspiracy theories? Hanlons razor! Its just a few bad actors not systemic to the org. At least it stopped after the Church committee, because its impossible to keep a secret conspiracy secret. Its just a bunch of coincidences that aligned by chance. Did everyone here forget their tinfoil hat? We should censor such conspiracy craziness for the greater good, because the platforms are private and have every right to do so, also people who believe in conspiracy theories are mentally ill. Talk like this is just illogical people trying to put meaning to events that happen where there is none. Its not like there is cordination among rich and powerful groups of people to conspire against the people, thats just a cliched trope.
Conspiracy theory: Many crazy conspiracy theories are published and promoted by intelligence agencies to foster public distrust in the existence of actual conspiracies.
Meanwhile many "crazy conspiracy theories" are based on a real conspiracy, so if QAnon is full of bullshit then Epstein is a non-story and anyone asking questions is a conspiracy nut.
I think this is absolutely a real phenomenon. I've even witnessed liberals starting to make jokes about the Epstein case itself because they seem to be convinced that the idea it's anything more than one lone guy is crazy simply by association with QAnon.
Jasun Horsley refers to QAnon and things like it as "conspiratainment" or "the second Matrix": essentially, since some people will unavoidably begin to perceive that the consensus reality is not what it seems to be, you set them up to enter a second one which is as much a hall of mirrors as the first.
