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Conspiracy theories are the new urban folklore.

They get disconnected from their origins, repackaged and repurposed like a durable material.

"Cabal" traditionally is a dog-whistle for the antisemitism conspiracy about why the Nazis claim they lost WW1.

It's been durable. Lots of uses of cabal these days shed those nazi roots and repurpose it to just mean "those corrupted by wealth and power". It's still really, extremely close to a very dangerous form of anti-semitism, but it's possible for one to exist without the other.

It's really fascinating how transitive these lies are and how they can be composited like higher level programming objects to form essentially different flavors of insanity. I wish humans weren't like this but eh, don't know how to change it



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