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I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.
“Chemtrails,” for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If there’s a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.
Sure, that's documented in projects like COINTELPRO. I agree the US govt does it and by extension, all other govt's do it too because they saw how daddy USA did it.
Did COINTELPRO include planting fake conspiracy theories? I missed that part of it if so, maybe just because there was so much else in it that was so much worse
I think so, against the Black Panthers. It's late and I have to go to bed now but now I'm only 90% certain they did that shit against the OG Panthers.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/how-beijing-used-rockets-to-keep-opening-ceremony-dry-890294.html
But planes instead of rockets. People who think chemtrail believers are too retarded to tell the difference between chemtrails and contrails are the bottom of the barrel.
You probably won't see trails in the air. Doesn't mean shit getting sprayed in the air to learn from/control the weather is OK.