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Ricki Yasha Tarr Nov 14, 2024

Someone (who chose not to be tagged in this post) asked this question:

How are some of us aware and appalled that this (misinformation) is happening and others just go all in with the conspiracies?

What do you all think? What makes the difference?

Please refrain from just calling people stupid, I know it can definitely feel that way, but we can do better than that.

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Marty Fouts

@RickiTarr It’s a matter of training and experience. We all believe things that aren’t true because none of us is entirely immune to propaganda. Some of us are more skeptical because either we have been trained that way or we have discovered that we were being fooled because we couldn’t avoid contradictory evidence.
Conspiracy theories are comfortable: they lend a sense of order to a chaotic universe and they provide something to blame for what we can’t control.