well, they’re really doing it to keep down inflation righ-

Sure, it’s a conspiracy. That doesn’t mean it’s not true. It annoys me so, that “conspiracy theories” are derided on the basis that they involve conspiracies, when there are conspiracies in reality, and such theories should be evaluated based on how much they match up to reality.

So close yet so far. In basketball, it’s called a brick and you get zero points. Same in other sports. If you consistently miss, it doesn’t matter how close you were every time.

You can’t just take common sense and call it a conspiracy theory.

“Conspiracy theory” has meant for a very long time now things which are observable and obvious but are false because the US government has not admitted to their truth yet because these uncomfortable observable realities are detrimental to the interests of capital, and a bunch of obviously insane things thrown in to discredit that which is common sense. It’s literally old school “thing bad so call bad thing bad name then people associate thing bad with bad name” or for the newer generation, anyone who disagrees with the narrative is a Russian agent.