Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention.
There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.
They are opportunists. These people share conspiracy theories to promote conflict, cause chaos, recruit and radicalize potential followers, make money, harass, or even just to get attention.
There are several types of this sort of conspiracy-spreader trying to influence you.
like me saying that Hasbro hired pinkertons to threaten the commander rules committee into handing over control of the format
I love watching tankies squirm under adequate questioning of their morals.
You all fail to be genuine and it’s genuinely amazing.
Saw one yesterday that demanded proof against her argument. Someone provided it, she didn’t like it so she said it wasn’t true- then demanded true proof from a different source.
Of course that too was provided, this time by another person, and this also was dismissed as not true.
Several examples and fact-checked articles later she folded her arms and bailed. Never having admitted she was wrong.
It was truly remarkable!
Aaaah hahaha another one!
Bunch of dickheads apparently feeling attacked in these comments
We call them tankies. It’s less…. Offensive.
Power. Done, saved you a read.
Is it power? These are delusions. They don’t affect reality.
Mostly, they appear to be coping for anxiety and stress. Trump’s MAGA is a way to convince conservatives that “the patriots are in control” when they’re plainly powerless. The Mueller She Wrote crowd needs to believe police exist for powerful people and it’s not all just punching down.
All these lies seem to exist and get regurgitated because the truth is too awful to contend with.
Thankfully I have plenty of popcorn lol. 🍿 help yourself to some if you’d like.
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so why not have fun?
No raindrop feels itself responsible for the flood.
By perpetuating and increasing human stupidity, you’re enabling the situation you’re complaining about.
No raindrop feels itself responsible for the flood.
I love that, and I don’t think I’ve heard it before.
I came across this phrase organically by accidental haiku:
Water drops in the Ocean never mean to be- come a tsunami
It’s not fun because I am a functional adult.
That’s nice dear, most adults are not functional and didn’t have rich enough parents to ever be functional. STEM majors really should have a forced 4 years of humanities, especially sociology, before being allowed online.
The bigger concern why some of the “conspiracies” turn out to be true later and fake news never held accountable for their bad faith shilling when they sometimes even know it is false…
How about that one?
If I pump put baseless conspiracies nonstop then statistically I’ll get something sort of right at some point. It doesn’t mean I was right to espouse that bullshit on the first place. Showing your work matters. If you got to a right conclusion accidentally by making shit up , it doesn’t mean you were “right” or that people were we’re wrong to laugh at you. There’s a thing called Epistemology. Humans have been doing it for thousands of years. Learn about it .
So you hold your regime to the similar standard?
Can you ask a coherent question? Who is my regime? You’re not being charged by the word. Be specific.
Owners of the US have fake news run propaganda that has no basis in fact. Do you hold these people as accountable the same way you are doing here with some random Neo nazis farming twattrr for cash?
Owners of the US have fake news run propaganda that has no basis in fact.
Generalizing this far is not rational or productive. There are varying degrees of quality in US media with varying problems within. Zooming out this far isn’t productive. Might as well go further and say “people lie, therefore nothing can be trusted”. Sounds deep, but is just a futile meaningless statement. Most problems with news media stem from distortions of fact, but obviously do have some basis in fact so right off the bat your premise is faulty.
Do you hold these people as accountable
If you’re asking whether I hold media accountable for lying or for bad reporting (no, they are the same. If you can tell the difference that’s on you), then yes I do.
You’re now far off topic. Spreading baseless conspiracy theories constantly and having some of them be sort of adjacent to the truth isn’t a vindication. It doesnt mean you were right to say what you said.
Must be nice believe this lol
You guys always prove to be completely incapable of rational thought. It’s why the article triggered you so much.
You’re talking about Fox “News” right?
All of it… Regime whores doing owners bidding and normies larp as gospel and do so as narrative shifts.
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Frankly, some of it is push back against busy-bodies who seem to be totally incapable of parsing the concept that the Internet isn’t some sort of bastion of absolute truth. It’s sarcasm that idiots take far too seriously. More than a little is because certain autocratic wanna-bees seem to desire to use the Internet to intrude upon people’s most private thoughts and moments.
But yes, explain it all away as some sort of nefarious plot to justify even further intrusions into people’s lives.
we do it because it’s funny
So you are here admitting you’re a troll?
Pretty sure that’s why the US does war stuff. They think it’s fucking hilarious.
The fact you don’t find it funny is your problem 🤷
(You’re a hypocrite if that burns at all)
I’ve sometimes thought about that. Maybe in an alternate reality there’s a someone with my face who isn’t held back by any sort of morality whatsoever. Once you open that door, you can totally start spreading the stupidest ideas you can think of, and you’ll find someone who believes it and becomes your devout follower. I have a feeling that Scientology came about as a result of this sort of thinking.
I still find it insane how people can take almost anything on the internet at face value, apart from maybe reputable news outlets and properly reviewed research and technical stuff - and even THAT with a grain of salt.
It’s just too much fun to post bullshit, and obviously there are too many people bullshitting for so many reasons.
We used to call it “shooting the shit” in the pre-authoritarian days, and it was just an ordinary part of socializing with like minded individuals. I’m convinced that the only reason the Internet was allowed to be good at first, was to lure everyone into holding personal conversations on social media and messaging apps, so that they could police everyone’s everyday speech.
I’m convinced that’s exactly what they want you to believe.
