the military-industrial-banking complex

I think that framing is unlikely to be helpful when discussing your ideas with others outside your social sphere. I know SaidIt tries to accommodate so-called "conspiracy theories", but you won't persuade anyone who doesn't already believe. You have to build the case for the existence of such a thing, which entails a much longer discussion.

As for me, I don't need to accept this framing because it just doesn't matter. People network and exchange ideas. Ideas outside the increasingly narrow framing of the MSM get labeled "fringe", "conspiracy", "extreme" and such. The purpose of the labels is to provide shortcuts for normies so they can avoid thinking.

Looking back on this short exchange I feel I've deviated far afield from my original points of interest. I'll drop it here, unless you have more to add.