Research reveals what kind of people fall for conspiracy theories

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operation crossfire hurricane is no conspiracy theory.

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Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, into myriad links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies and "whether individuals associated with [Trump's] presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election".[1] Trump was not personally under investigation until May 2017, when his firing of FBI director James Comey raised suspicions of obstruction of justice, which triggered the Mueller investigation.[2]

The investigation was officially opened on July 31, 2016, initially due to information on Trump campaign member George Papadopoulos's early assertions of Russians having damaging material on Trump's rival candidate Hillary Clinton which the Russians offered to anonymously release as assistance to the Trump campaign. From late July to November 2016, the joint effort between the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA) examined evidence of Russian meddling in the presidential election. The FBI's team enjoyed a large degree of autonomy within the broader interagency probe.

The FBI's work was taken over on May 17, 2017, by the Special Counsel investigation of 2017–2019, which eventually resulted in the Mueller Report. Mueller concluded that Russian interference occurred in a "sweeping and systematic fashion" and that there were substantial links between Russians and the Trump campaign, but the evidence available to investigators did not establish that the Trump campaign had "conspired or coordinated" with the Russian government.

Trump and his allies repeatedly alleged that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was opened on false pretenses for political purposes.[3] A subsequent review done by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, released in redacted form in December 2019, found no evidence that political bias against Trump tainted the initiation of the investigation,[4][5][6][7][8][9] but did find that the FBI made 17 errors or omissions in its FISA warrant applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) for surveillance of former Trump aide Carter Page.[3][10]

On January 23, 2020, two of the four FISA warrants were declared invalid by the Department of Justice.[11] James E. Boasberg, a Washington D.C. federal judge, also said that surveillance collected against Page lacked a legal basis.[12] As a result of this and other issues that raised questions about the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, Attorney General William Barr assigned John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, to lead an investigation into Crossfire Hurricane.[13] On August 19, 2020, a former FBI attorney pleaded guilty to making a false statement stemming from his alteration of an email connected to one of the FISA warrant applications.[14][15] On October 19, 2020, Barr appointed Durham to be a Special Counsel, elevating the form of the investigation, in this probe.[16][17] Upon release of his final report, Durham did not recommend charges against any new individuals or recommend wholesale changes to how the FBI conducts controversial investigations. However, he criticized the FBI and Justice Department, stating that they "failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report" and argued that a full investigation never should have been launched, at odds with a 2019 Justice Department inspector general investigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)
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A number of Russians have come forward and admitted to colluding in that election. How involved was trump we may not know but there is no question it happened.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I suspect that half of them are faking belief in these theories
out of having no aptitude to converse on actually valid issues.

It's easy to discuss anything when all you have to do
is pull stuff out of your ass.
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When you can't accept the fact Biden kicked your ass in the election it's easier to just say no he didn't, it was rigged. Republicans must be pretty fucking stupid for that to have happenned yet they don't have a single piece of credible evidence to support it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I think, broadly speaking, that there are two sides to whether someone buys into conspiracy theories or not. These are emotional / desire and rational / intellectual / analytical.

On the emotional / desire side, people are more likely to buy a conspiracy theory when they are experiencing negative emotions and the desired outcome isn't happening. It is a way of explaining away why things are going wrong for them.
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Like when Trump lost the election. To claim it didn't happen is the only way he could accept the fact he lost.

On the rational / intellectual / analytical side, people who are uncurious, not particularly bright--regardless of level of education--and tend to be irrational are far more likely to accept a conspiracy theory than persons who are the opposite.
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Which is why we have so many republicans believing Trump is wonderful and not a criminal, most of them are simply ignorant.

So, someone likely to buy into conspiracy theories is also likely to be emotional, unable to control their desires, irrational, mundane intellectually, and uncurious. They could start out that way, or they could have outside influences like heavy drug use, or other factors weighing on them.
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You mean your MAGA republican. I'd say the "other factor weighing on them" is their uncontrollable hatred for anything democratic.

Since people who are impulsive and unable to control their desires, and who lack intellect will also be ones that tend to find themselves in dire economic, social, legal, political straights where things are going wrong for them simply because of their own actions, they buy into conspiracy theories as a way to pass the blame for their failures onto others.
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You can't define Donald Trump much better than that!
 
Port Tack said:
A number of Russians have come forward and admitted to colluding in that election. How involved was trump we may not know but there is no question it happened.
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guno said:
People who believe in conspiracy theories tend to be insecure and paranoid, suggests a new study.

Conspiracy theorists are also likely to be emotionally volatile and impulsive, according to the findings.

But they're not all mentally unstable, say psychologists.

They found that people can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...n&cvid=c3a6fbd860264e5bb18f5f97159440ef&ei=66
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Being Republican and lacking college education seem to be the most statistically powerful predictors of the likelihood of being duped by conspiracy theories.
 
JesusAI said:
Like russiagate?

like jussies smollet stories?
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^^^
Among JPP's top conspiracy theorists and patsies. LOL

Only the dumbasses and patsies think the Mueller investigation was primarily to investigate Russian collusion. Smollet got what Trump traitors deserve: felony convictions and prison.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/jussie-smollett-to-face-sentencing-thursday/
Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail, ordered to pay back Chicago $120K
Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in the Cook County Jail Thursday, three months after he was found guilty of lying about a racist, homophobic hate crime attack in Streeterville in early 2019.

In announcing his verdict Thursday evening after an hours of arguments, Cook County Judge James Linn said to Smollett, “You really craved the attention…You wanted to make yourself more famous, and for a while it worked.”

“You were throwing a national pity party for yourself,” Linn said. The judge also told Smollett that a side of him is “profoundly arrogant and selfish and narcissistic.”

Smollett opted to not make a statement before the sentence was announced, but once he learned his fate he began yelling in the courtroom that he was “not suicidal.”

Along with the 150 days in jail, Smollett was also sentenced to 30 months of probation. He also must pay the city just over $120,000 in restitution for the overtime spent by Chicago police officers who investigated his initial hate crime claim. Additionally, Linn imposed a $25,000 fine.

Smollett was taken into custody immediately after the sentence was announced, and he continued yelling that he was “not suicidal” as he was taken out of court.
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