Thread by @drimcalban, Folktakes About Power is a better phrase than Conspiracy Theory.CT is literally [...]

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Folktakes About Power is a better phrase than Conspiracy Theory.

CT is literally used as "wrongheaded speculation" where that would be a better phrase, most of the time. The rest of the time it means something like "idiot's blame framework."

So use precise terms.

What's Yours

Your Blame Framework, your Folktale About Power?

You have them.

You have an idea what's wrong. You know it's coordinated, you know it transcends legality.

You know fixing it will require some crimes.

So what the Folktale Is, is more cogent than whether you have one.

Of you tell that tale with no elements of uncertainty, all the blanks filled in, well.

We all know what that means.

If you have access to the Who, it's Only a question of When or Whether. You didn't, so knowledge isn't virtue. Knowledge is complicity.

In a Managerial Culture, faking superior knowledge is a hiring bonus. It biases the user toward rewards from less intelligent bosses. Dominant cultures see all kinds of mimicry at all levels, e.g. radio hosts with omnicient foreign policy military project insights. CT is culture.

And it's uncritically used against Gang Members, Persons Percieved As Nonwhite, and Anarchists all the time.
Literally a crime to do anarchist shit in a public forum. Planning so, thus, becomes an actual Conspiracy.
So they exist, the question is whose and to what ends?

A plan. To crime against some protesters' rights to associate.