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Re:People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Ps... by Lammy on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:46PM (#23362442)
Idiots == people who are questioning the status quo of their day?
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Re:People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Ps... by krapp on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:48PM (#23362473)
If the status quo is trivially provable, and has been for thousands of years, yes.
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Re:People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Ps... by Lammy on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#23362504)
If it were trivially provable to these people they wouldn't question it.
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Re:People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Ps... by CyberDildonics on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:53PM (#23363109)
I'm sure we all wish that were true.

There are people who have flown around the world many times who have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole.

Unfortunately the people who aren't confident they can actually learn about what they are afraid of, or correctly judge probabilities of things being true, spend their energy choosing who to believe instead of gathering information and forming a coherent understanding.

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Re:People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Ps... by ColanR on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:40PM (#23362990)
Backwards. "Idiots" are the ones who do not question the status quo.
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