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Originally Posted by donquixote99
OK, let's clear a thing up. A 'conspiracy theory' and a 'conspiracy' are two different things. A conspiracy theory is basically the belief that someone is conning you. A conspiracy is an actual con.
People are seen to believe in lots of conspiracy theories that are damned unlikely. For example, people believe that the buildings of the 1893 Columbian Exposition were actually ancient buildings of the Tartarian Empire, and historians and architects are conspiring to cover this up. This is an actual conspiracy theory, it exists. It helps a lot to have a conspiracy mindset as I described above to believe a thing like this.
Now, if an author and a publisher get together to sell a totally made-up history book of the Tartarian Empire, without either of them believing a word of it, they are in a conspiracy.
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Well said. I shouldn't worry about the repubs, but the Mormons. I guess they're coming back to take Missouri by force.