• rothaine@lemm.ee
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    *every known letter of the alphabet.

    The implication that there are undiscovered letters creates excitement for the reader. Who knows what is out there!

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    Starts to make sense how some conspiracies come out when you get examples like this of people being blatantly ignorant of evidence right in front of their noses

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      In my experience it has less to do with stuff like this where people are just not looking close enough or are mistaken and more to do with the idea of them being wrong being impossible. Conspiracies that I interact with don’t even discuss evidence. Because they can’t be wrong and there’s no way to falsify their worldview.

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        A lot of it has to do with wanting to be superior. They have feelings of not having control so they tell themselves and each other that everyone else is stupid and being fooled but not them, they are the smart few, they know the truth, they are the in crowd.

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        This, in the post truth era, evidence is only useful to educated people that are willing. For most victims, we have to de program them first.

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          Every single discussion I have about climate ends with “yes, that’s one side of the argument, but who really knows what’s the truth”.

          Motherfucker, you said something that’s false. I showed you you were wrong by a factor of several million. Where ever the exact truth lies, it’s way on the other side of the fucking moon from your standpoint.

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    This is actually a perfect representation of the shallow “research” conspiracy theorists do.

    Quoting only the first few lines of an abstract outlining a problem/open question then ignoring the rest of the paper where they address the issue in the abstract.

    This way, they can claim that the paper says the exact opposite of what it does.

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    I especially like when the person who says “theres[sic] no letter e” is wrong 3 times and makes a spelling mistake. 😂

    Absolute disasterclass.

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    the availability of text on the internet can make people believe they’re an expert on topics that take a lifetime to understand

    if people should do their own research, we may as well shutter the national labs and universities