^{Note: This is a throwaway, because I don't particularly like this sub and don't want my main associated with it even a little bit. Read into that what you will.}

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Well good luck with that. If conspiracies could be so easily proven, they wouldn't be conspiracies, they'd be historic facts.

You don't know the definition of conspiracy then.

Conspiracy - "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful."

For instance, The Tuskegee Experiments were conspiratorial: they were kept secret, they were criminal, they were done on purpose. But they were found out and exposed. It was still a conspiracy. The act of finding them out did not make it not a conspiracy. A thing can be a historical fact and a conspiracy simultaneously.

The Business Plot is another good example, as is MKULTRA. These are well-documented, actual conspiracies that happened (or attempted to happen, in the case of The Business Plot).

The difference between this sub and /r/actualconspiracies is that the latter requires evidence, and mods there will delete your post if it's just speculative. This sub exists only as a speculative group: I rarely see people demanding evidence. Rather I see people more often than not just accept what they're told and say pitiful things like, "But what can we do?"

I can speculate nearly anything here and be upvoted for it (and many here do) – so long as it's juicy enough to want to believe.¹ I can see knives in every shadow. I can assume that anyone who disagrees with me is a shill, and paid to do so.²

But speculation doesn't hold up to science, to reason, or to law. Put it like this: I don't speculate as to whether vehicles are coming before I cross the road. I evidence 'yes' or 'no', and then cross the road.

While /r/conspiracy does tend to downvote it's own wild speculation (I lurk here a lot, and /r/conspiracy/new is filled with trash that 90% of which doesn't make it far), more often than I'm comfortable with this sub will upvote it 'for discussion'. Conversely, /r/actualconspiracies recognizes that this is too easily made into witchhunting, or simply a waste of time.

We can speculate and theorize all day long about ancient aliens breeding demi-god humans and those demi-gods' great-great-great- ... -great-grandchildren are now the Rothschilds. None of that is evidenced: not even a little bit. It turns into "I'm just asking questions" type talk, whereby a person will make outrageous claims in the form of a 'what if' question, and viewers/readers will forget the 'what if' and just accept the claim might be true (why else would we talk about it, right?). Ancient Aliens producers know this hattrick well, so well in fact that Von Danikken has basically used it as his primary defense: "I was only asking questions". To him I say 'Bullshit sir, you started an entire quasi-religious movement that undermines countless man-hours spent by educators and historians across the world, all to sell a few books and TV shows'. Alex Jones and the rest of Conspiracy Inc are no better. They use the same hattricks over and over.³

And let's not pretend that "Just asking questions" isn't dangerous: I don't care how Orwellian it sounds, "just asking questions" is very much a dangerous act when it's done irresponsibly. If I constantly ask, "Are black men more prone to raping women than white men?" over and over and over again, without presenting any evidence, I am bound to convince some people this is the case. /r/Conspiracy does this over and over and over again, and frankly, it's a little pathetic.

Just my two cents though. Again, I'm a lurker, and one who does so because I find this all entertaining. I love a good ghost story; I love a good conspiracy story. I don't believe in ghosts, and I wash talk of conspiracies through logic and reason and see if it crumbles in the drain. More often than not, here, it does.

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^{1 This is easy here: Just cast the Jews/corporations/rich people/gub'ment in a bad light and you'll be upvoted here. That's another incredibly woeful part of /r/conspiracy that keeps a lot of otherwise like-minded people out. Even the non-Stormfront, non-racist members of /r/conspiracy must have a tough time not hating the Jews after being exposed to so much vitriol and hate directed at them for so long.}

^{2. ..and many here do exactly that - see the top post in the sub right now regarding Monsanto. I won't argue that they're all not shills, but it's entirely unreasonable to assume that every or even most downvotes were paid for, and that's the speculation that's getting attention today}

^{3. Yeah yeah, 'CIA Operatives', "Jones is a double agent", whatever.}