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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Shared404 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:10PM (#25662539)
I suspected that would be the case, but as you pointed out, they have many claims.

At work currently, so haven't really looked at it. Probably will tonight, maybe make a post refuting it.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eli on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:12PM (#25662565)
I doubt it's worth your time. You can't refute a conspiracy theory with facts.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Jtsummers on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:26PM (#25662735)
A common response I've received when refuting part or all of various conspiracy theories, young Earth creationist, or flat Earth type logic: "It doesn't matter that that's not true, it still could have been true."

Like the possibility of a truth is all they need to believe in it. And then shifting goal posts.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eli on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:30PM (#25662791)
I can only imagine how much worse this all would be if the Presidential election had actually been close. We should be thankful that only an incomprehensibly vast conspiracy could possibly have "stolen" the election.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Jtsummers on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:52PM (#25663097)
Do you have real proof/evidence of this "vast election fraud"? So far none has been presented. And what "proof" is out there are either known falsehoods, crazy theories (zombie Hugo Chavez wants Biden and not Trump to win), or nonsensical (CIA/DOD/NSA radioactive isotope watermarks are applied to all legitimate ballots, any day now they'll show that x million ballots were fakes).

Other than the dishonest (to themselves or others), few are claiming no fraud. There's always fraud (either intentional or not), but usually (and so far this election seems no different) in the tens to hundreds of cases. But there's no evidence of millions of faked votes.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Shared404 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:15PM (#25662590)
You can't refute those deep in, but you can help protect those who could be swayed by lots of "data" and a fancy web page.

I may or may not get around to it, but I could see it being worthwhile.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eli on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:20PM (#25662659)
Respectfully disagree. I don't think you can.

People are reading a website like this because they are looking for confirmation of what they already feel must be true.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Shared404 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:34PM (#25662844)
I agree mostly.

I partially just want something to link to if I happen to see it linked in the wild again, it rubs me the wrong way to see it uncontested in a conversation.

I figure that at least that way new people aren't getting sucked in when they click thinking "Well, I should check the other sides view."

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dhruvkar on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:51PM (#25663085)
Thanks for sharing. While I agree with eli, this is an insight into what the other side is looking at. And the "other side" is definitely a spectrum of people -- ones who are open to reason and others that are absolutely not.