Conspiriting

My supervisor said this and I’m not letting him live it down

They’re conspiriting against you

by Rod_me September 10, 2021

Conspiracised

To have a conspiracy

The incident has been conspiracised to be covered up by the government.

by Naut A. Idiot November 16, 2024

global warming conspiracist

Someone who calls themselves a climate change activist, and believes the world is ending all because of a ridiculous idea Al Gore came up with to scare and control the masses using fake data from paid scientific actors. People knew about this when it started, so nobody is falling for it unless they are sincerely foolish. Any real scientist knows it’s a scam and conspiracy.

A Global warming conspiracist tried to convince me the air is going to destroy the planet because I drive to work every day and the earth is flat and so on and whatever else conspiracy theorists come up with.

by Petdragon December 28, 2022

Hard Problem of Conspiracies

A more focused version: the practical and philosophical difficulty of proving a real-world conspiracy once it surpasses a certain scale and sophistication. Beyond a point, the evidence becomes circumstantial, witnesses are discredited, and documents are classified or destroyed. The "hard problem" is that the mechanisms a powerful group would use to execute a major conspiracy (compartmentalization, intimidation, media control) are the same mechanisms skeptics cite as being implausible. Reality blurs into a Le Carré novel where truth is not just hidden, but actively designed to look like paranoia.

Example: "Investigating the corporate price-fixing scandal, we hit the hard problem of conspiracies: the emails were deleted 'routinely,' key players had sudden 'failure of memory,' and the one whistleblower's life fell apart. Proving it wasn't about finding a smoking gun; it was about reconstructing a shadow from the absence of light, knowing the court needed the gun itself."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026