Conspiracy theories are made by the CIA to take attention away from the real conspiracies
Summary
Conspiracy theories are made from random guys like me," a straphanger insists, right before Kareem accuses him of working for the CIA. The conversation spirals from there. They trade theories about Pizzagate (which turned out mostly true minus the pizza part), the moon landing (obviously filmed by Stanley Kubrick on a movie set), and the CIA flooding Black neighborhoods with crack (that's not conspiracy, that's fact). Kareem's point cuts through: real conspiracies get discredited when someone infiltrates them and adds silly details as spice. The straphanger knows suspiciously specific details about everything. Kareem keeps needling him about it. By the end, even the headphones might cause brain cancer.
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So what's your take? Conspiracy theories are a conspiracy made by the CIA to take our attention away from the real conspiracies? 100% disagree.
You disagree? I think conspiracy theories are made from random guys like me.
That's 'cause you work with them. You call me part of the CIA?
Hey, I'm just saying, man. That's what someone with the CIA would say. I might be part of the CIA. Who knows? But I don't work in the conspiracy theories Department.
Think about it. Let's say some people are upon the truth. How do you discredit them? You infiltrate them and then you add some silly details to their theory so you make it look stupid. Some spice. Let's take an example. Uh, you know, Pizzagate? I know about Pizzagate. It was a theory that said that Pizzagate is like a theory about a pizzeria where they abduct little children so that rich, powerful men could abuse them. And then the Epstein thing happened, and then we realized the only thing that was false about it was the pizza parts. You get it?
I don't know. You seem to know a lot about the subject. Who's to say you didn't make the conspiracy? Okay, that's weird.
Yes or no question: Did you ask yourself no, did we land on the Moon? I don't know. I—me—we did not land on the Moon. It's possible that we did, but I think it's smarter if we didn't. I don't think we did. It's obviously a movie set directed by Stanley King. Everybody knows that.
Think about this one. You know that uh, the CIA introduced crack into Black neighborhoods? That's not a conspiracy. That's fact. That's true. That's fact.
But that's because now we know it to be fact. Now imagine you're a poor drug dealer and you're having your trial and you try and explain to the judge. The judge is telling you, "So you're telling me that the CIA sold you crack?" "No, I'm telling you that they gave it to me."
That's a good point. Also, I wouldn't wear those headphones. They cause uh, brain cancer. Uh, that sounds like a real theory.