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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

However, the files don't prove a widespread conspiracy, they instead prove what we already knew, that people in power are shitty people, who look the other way, and readily associate with deeply immoral criminals, just to gain influence and network.

Right, it just proves there's a widespread group of people who came together and came to an agreement about the crimes they were committing and how they would get away with it. Hmmmmmmm, I wonder what a word for that would be....

conspiracy /kən-spîr′ə-sē/
noun

An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

Huh, would you look at that, it WAS a conspiracy!

[–] druk@feddit.uk -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just don't believe there was a large, organized group of people doing cannibalism and such. It is extremely unlikely that such a conspiracy would exist for a sustained period of time.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't care how large the group committing the acts are if there is, in fact, a large conspiracy of people actively protecting them. One person actively committing the crime is one too many, and anyone protecting them is complicit. If this were a bank robbery where someone was killed, the getaway driver still gets the murder conviction, even if he never went in the building.

To bastardize an old saying, if there are 10 people at a table and they choose to let the cannibalistic pedophile sit down and don't immediately eject them with a brick, you have a group of 11 people conspiring to protect a cannibalistic pedophile.