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Random sailer's avatar

The guy who set himself on fire - recommend you read his manifesto which is on substack. It is a conspiracy theory but one that is possibly true.

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

Rather than make me search, can you share the theory?

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Random sailer's avatar

How do I send it to you ? I made it a pdf before it disappeared

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

Oh, not the whole manifesto, just tell me what the conspiracy theory is.

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Random sailer's avatar

It’s a lot of pages. I will re find it as I did save it but I can’t summarize it. It’s not stupid and it’s not impossible that it’s true

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

I read the first few paragraphs. Grand conspiracies involving hundreds of players fail to convince me because of the basic fact that people cannot shut up, that three can keep a secret if two are dead.

It's just post-hoc pattern seeking by a disturbed mind, from what I see.

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

"Not impossible that it's true" is a very low bar, lower than we should set. The question should be "does the evidence presented support the assertion above simpler ones?"

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Random sailer's avatar

It certainly doesn’t meet the Occam’s razor standard. But after the Russian Collusion Hoax (and climate change hoax that is ongoing and also multiple parties involved - I feel this is plausible

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Random sailer's avatar

Just sent you the link. It’s below.

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Mark A. McCall's avatar

That’s a very good, excellent, exceptional column!

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