This approach to conspiracy debunking does have one weakness.
If you put a hundred liberals in a room and tell them to develop proposals, you can bet they'll develop liberal proposals.
If you put a hundred conservatives in a room and tell them to develop proposals, you can bet they'll develop conservative proposals.
And they'll do it without any activity resembling conspiracy. They'll do it simply because that's the kind of people they are.
All you have to do to produce behavior that is functionally indistinguishable from conspiracy (to people who oppose the behavior)is to have enough like-minded people acting in any given sphere.
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If you put a hundred liberals in a room and tell them to develop proposals, you can bet they'll develop liberal proposals.
If you put a hundred conservatives in a room and tell them to develop proposals, you can bet they'll develop conservative proposals.
And they'll do it without any activity resembling conspiracy. They'll do it simply because that's the kind of people they are.
All you have to do to produce behavior that is functionally indistinguishable from conspiracy (to people who oppose the behavior)is to have enough like-minded people acting in any given sphere.