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277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories

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Political Propaganda

A, you know, politics is an amoral game. There's a lot of people making up stuff to try to put their opponents offa. So all that we could say is conspiracies. But at some point there's so much of it that we need to narrower focus on what we're tone about. These kinds of conspiracy theories are often anti authoritarian and very deterministic. They involve some element of an echo chamber. It has come to seme the purpose of political propaganda, it has to be illegal or immoral to be a conspiracy the way we're talking about it.

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