Generalise much? Please be so kind as to provide a definition of your understanding of a CT is.
To Joe, still waiting for a reply to this from a few days back. Maybe someone might be able to help you with my native country, or I could give you another clue.....it's an island contingent.
I don’t see all the posts, particularly on this topic which has so many.
Under my definition, a CTer is a believer in a Large-Secret-Enduring conspiracy. They could be called LSE-CTers.
So, I don’t include that those who believe in a conspiracy by the Jesse James gang to rob the Northfield Bank as LSE-CTers. A gang of 8 robbers could be expected to keep a secret and spring a surprise, un ineffective surprise, on a bank. A gang of 8,000 robbers would not be able to maintain the element of surprise.
Like a belief JFK was assassinated so the conspirators could steer the United States into the Vietnam War. Or some other very large goal.
Or the belief that the employees and programmers of Dominion Systems Software, thousands of poll workers, and thousands researching previous voters to forge ballots and signatures, along with various officials, often Republicans, conspired to steal the 2020 Election from Trump.
Sometimes JFK CTers deny believing in a large conspiracy, but I think that the vast majority of them do.
Someone might be a CTer about the JFK assassination but not the 2020 Election. Or someone might be a CTer about the 2020 Election but not the JFK assassination. The true skeptical thinkers are not CTers about either, or any other Large-Secret-Enduring conspiracy.
A few parallels between the JFK CTers and the 2020 Election CTers:
• The JFK Conspirators allegedly revel the conspiracy in about as many ways as possible. Framing the wrong man who cannot shot well. Framing him with the wrong type of rifle. Using different types of rifles to commit the murder than the one they used to frame Oswald. Firing from directions that Oswald could not have been. Just to name a few.
The 2020 Election conspirators allegedly went overboard as well. Brought in Dominion Voting System company and employees. Thousands of poll workers, Thousands of others to research former voters and make fake ballots. Revealing the conspiracy in about as many ways as possible.
• The use of fantastic probability calculations. This seems to appear to seem inherently convincing to people.
In the JFK conspiracy, the widely calculated odds, by the Sunday London Times, of a certain set of witnesses killed as one in one hundred trillion.
Or to a lesser extent, the odds of the 1963 Dictabelt recording matching the 1978 test firing recordings by one in one hundred thousand.
And now Trump saying that the odds of Biden overtaking Trump’s lead in all six states were: “we're still talking about only 1-in-1 trillion odds of a sweep”.
Perhaps in the coming year we may learn of the mysterious deaths of a few Dominion Voting Systems employees and poll workers.
An island continent? That must be Australia.
And what is wood duck? I still don’t know. I would guess, from their range, a Canadian?
