HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhite Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowarswww.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1594arrow-down119
arrow-up1575arrow-down1external-linkWhite Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowarswww.vice.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoHow is it a conspiracy? It’s a fact that’s been quite well known for hundreds of years
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThat’s mostly the modern understanding, but the word also still means people working together to achieve something.
minus-squareshastaxc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoI thought that’s collusion/collaboration
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoA 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.
How is it a conspiracy? It’s a fact that’s been quite well known for hundreds of years
That’s mostly the modern understanding, but the word also still means people working together to achieve something.
I thought that’s collusion/collaboration
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.