People like this are incapable of understanding anything past democrats and republicans. Talk to them about something beyond that in the political landscape and their heads explode.
One thing they really can’t comprehend is a person who’s far right enough to not like Trump. If you don’t like him you are instantly a democrat to these people, and “DEMOCRATS ARE THE REEEAL RACISTS!”
Yeah. You gotta be careful not to just become a braindead anti establishment shill like these people. If you see anything the mainstream media says and instantly believe the opposite, you are still letting them define your positions, just in a reactive opposition.
Sometimes things are conspiracies, but sometimes they are just as they appear.
If you want to gauge if something is a psyop there are 3 things you must consider.
1.)The amount of actual evidence. The combination of video footage, spoken or written testaments, documents, pictures and everything else. The more evidence there is to either support or deny a conspiracy theory, obviously the higher the likelihood that is the correct answer.
2.) The amount of people who know. Scientifically speaking, the biggest risk to any secret conspiracy is the amount of people who know. The CIA uses this as their *modus operandi* and it is the reason 90% of leaked documents look like fucking SCP descriptions. The more people lower on the command chain that know something, the higher the chance that someone goes awol. Look at the Snowden leaks. All it took was 1 guy downloading the files and leaking it to the public to destroy decade's of careful planning and secrecy.
3.) The timeframe which the conspiracy covers. The longer a conspiracy goes on, the higher the likelihood it is fake. This for instance is why faking the moon landing is such an absurd idea. Unless you believe the ISS is fake and all the other subsequent astronomical expeditions after 1963 were ALL faked over 60+ years, you have to admit it the moonlanding is obviously real.
There will always be nuance to stuff like this but these 3 general rules of thumb are pretty good to go by