I feel this building would be a much better conspiracy target if they had done then normal thing of making it look like a building; one with fake windows that nobody ever goes in - or comes out.
They aren't entirely insane, they are onto something. But, ironically, they have been programmed by business interests to ignore their own malfeasance. So the story can't just be "the government suspended monopoly laws and let everyone buy everyone and that's why everything sucks now, join a union". After all, a lot of these people were born and raised to oppose regulation and unions. So they instead have to construct a new framework for opposing business to get rid of that cognitive dissonance, and it invariably becomes this over-dramatized nonsense.
[0] A codeword referring to Nero, a politically unpopular Roman emperor that has been dead for over a thousand years
[1] A pizza place that does not have a basement, but that hasn't stopped conspiracy theorists from shooting them up and holding them hostage anyway
The definition of "conspiracy theorist" seems either pejorative or not, depending on who you ask. Why do you prefer to use it as a pejorative?
So, when cops rob an armored car via civil asset forfeiture it’s just something that happened no conspiracy theory required because there isn’t some other example that fits. But, the moon landing was fake fits because there’s another explanation.
Occasionally what once was a conspiracy theory is now considered factual, but at that moment it stops being a conspiracy theory because it’s no longer fringe. As such this isn’t a pejorative definition as it doesn’t directly imply such theories are incorrect.
I love a good No true Scotsman mixed with a twist of ad hominem.
Conspiracy theorists might go on and on about JFK or 9/11 or Pizzagate, but how often do you hear the conspiracy type obsess about Jan. 6, an actual proven conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States? The "proven" conspiracy theories they do care about, like MKUltra, are generally cast as far more consequential than most people would say they actually are.
Actually, they do. There are a lot of claims online saying it an FBI false flag operation, going so far as to name a specific person as an FBI plant.
And invariably, the actual conspiracy gets revealed by parties other than conspiracy theorists themselves, because the conspiracy theorists don't actually have insider knowledge, they're just doing the strings and thumbtacks thing and making guesses.
(with "you" I'm not referring to any poster here. Just generic paranoid person)