Conspiracy theories are sometimes true

On FaceBook, someone commented that anyone who believes in any conspiracy theories has to have a single-digit IQ, and I wrote out the following comment:

Too many conspiracy theories turned out to be true for all of them to be wrong. "The CIA is performing experiments on people to try to turn them psychic" was a conspiracy theory until the government declassified files about Project MKUltra, proving it was true. Hell, the Unibomber was one of the people they experimented on, he was radicalized by that experience.

"Black men are being injected with live syphilis under the guise of free vaccines" was also a conspiracy theory until that too turned out to be a real thing that was actually happening. (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment)

"Communities of color are being infiltrated by the government to get people addicted to drugs so the government can get cheap prison labor" was a conspiracy theory until it turned out to be the entire reason for the War On Drugs.

Tobacco companies hid the truth about tobacco being dangerous for decades to sell more tobacco, and are still doing that stuff in developing countries. That was just a conspiracy theory for a long time.

There really is a worldwide organization of the most rich and powerful men who perform strange rituals in the woods at their meetings. (Skull and Bones Society)

The oil industry has been conspiring to hide the truth about climate change for many decades.

Then there was this one dude who got sent to an insane assylum for talking about how his country's biggest bank was doing something nefarious. I'm sure that was talked about on one of the many articles about conspiracy theories that Cracked dot com does, but I have a headache and so ran out of energy before I could find out which one it was. But I remember it turned out he was right.

Now mind, I'm the first to laugh at ridiculous conspiracy theories like "the moon is a hologram invented by NASA" or "the surface of the earth is really the inside of a concave cavity in a giant cavern of black stone," but I don't dismiss the plausible ones because too many plausible conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.

BTW, another conspiracy theory that turned out to be true was "IQ tests were invented by a eugenicist to favor able-bodied, able-minded, white males."

Oh, also "the government is hiding how bad the AIDS crisis is because they hate gay people" also turned out to be true, at least in the US.

That was nine conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. There were at least a dozen more I didn't mention, that came up in my googling.

Stop claiming you risked your life for my freedom

I am so fucking tired of dipshit soldiers or veterans claiming they risked their lives for my freedom. No the FUCK you did not, you dipshit! And you are NOT a good person. If you're okay with signing up to murder foreign people, you're not a good person. I don't care how much you got pressured, how desperate you were, or anything like that. You knew when you signed on you would have to murder people, and you were okay with that, so you're automatically a bad person for joining the military.

Back in WW2 or earlier, things would have been different. But there hasn't been a just war or a purely defensive war that the US was involved in since WW2. All the wars since then have been unconstitutional, and have been either to fight the imaginary enemy of "communism" or to profit greedy parasitic wealthy evil people. So the idea that you, as a soldier, are "risking your life for your country" or for my freedom, is a twenty-mile high pile of horse crap. You risked your life and became a murderer for someone else's war profiteering. Accept the fact that you're a bad person and a dupe, and then get angry at the wealthy a-holes that duped you into that BS with their pretty lies.

It's especially laughable to claim you fought for my freedom when even under a Democratic administration, the US is still a fascist oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.