Characteristics of the new conspiracy theories – a primer richaldis 1. The victims are always prominent men rather than traditional theories where the state is the instigator and the public (usually shortened to ‘the truth’) the ultimate victim 2. The villain of the piece is always a woman – there are currently no conspiracies (that I could see) where the villain is a gay man or the victim a prominent woman 3. She (the villain) is invariably evil, driven, and responsible for amazing feats of villainy – from false registration of birth to bribing the entire British state and yet is simultaneously stupid and a tool of bigger forces such as the Ukrainian mafia or Simon Cowell. 4. In spite of being a small cog or a tool of powerful men she is never, ever a victim 5. Standards of public Victorian morality are applied to her behaviour, career, dress sense, former relationships. She is always a badly dressed narcissist drug addict whore who has failed in everything. 6. The ‘victim’ has a perfect state, referred to as ‘the real X’ which the theorists want him to return to 7. The victim is above averagely innocent, naïve and vulnerable. None of his previous choices, actions, dress sense or behaviours can or should be criticised. 8. The victim is almost always closeted and or being blackmailed about a very minor indiscretion, mostly things only the most Victorian of moralists would find problematic The theorists 1. Came to the ‘fandom’ late, after the normal groupings and structures of fandom had been in place a while. So, are looking to find a space where they can be a big fish 2. Always have ‘sources’ close to the victim 3. Often have two identities, ordinary fandom and ranting conspiricist 4. Insult and belittle ordinary fandom behaviour , even if they are secretly part of it, by claiming fans are uncritical, overprotective etc 5. Paint other fans as the worst sorts of obsessives even though they know dangerously obsessive fans are few and far between and are also derided by the mainstream, while exhibiting those behaviours themselves. 6. High involvement/interest in other areas of irrational thought, conspiracy theories, astrology, religion, anti-science 7. Superficially involved in social justice while claiming misogynistic, anti-Semitic or anti-poc comments are only aimed at the villain not at a whole group. 8. Are experts on everything even if it is outside their social, national, political group e.g non-UK experts on British culture, experts on technical issues such as Photoshop who it’s obvious don’t know their pixels from a hole in the ground. Their expertise is always at odds with the mainstream viewpoint of normal fans with the same expertise.
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That’s an AWFUL lot of always. And I’m not in any other “conspiracy groups”…although I do find it very interesting that Meghan Markle and Zero have a lot of the same pr firms repping them. And both are associated with SoHo house. And it looks like I’m not the only one thinking that, since all sorts of new London ips are showing up, looking at the connection posts…as is Disney HQ. Make of that what you will. And none of the skeptics I know are anti-science. In fact, a large number are in STEM industries. Sounds like an anti is again throwing shit against the wall, hoping something sticks. Sigh. I just keep asking who these antis are trying to convince?
Is SoFail a POC? Have you seen the BS some of her friends are into? Please stop with the stupid non-arguments. Unscrupulous people will take advantage of anyone they can. Sociopathic women can be just as bad as their male counterparts, furthermore the examples we’ve given don’t work alone. An entire network is behind them, as I said before we have names but have refrained from disclosing too much information. The antis also apparently fail to understand that what you see in the mainstream media is often far from the truth and that organized crime exists. I don’t know what reality they live in…