• llama@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    How do these people watch conspiratorial content and miss the fact that pale male European colonialism literally is the conspiracy?

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      1 year ago

      How is it a conspiracy? It’s a fact that’s been quite well known for hundreds of years

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        1 year ago

        That’s mostly the modern understanding, but the word also still means people working together to achieve something.

        • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          A conspiracy is working with people secretly to do some illegal or wrong in some way. You aren’t conspiring with your teammates to win a soccer game.