Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories
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#2Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally.
The existence of both groups is disappointing.
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#3Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally. The existence of both groups is disappointing.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me.
Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
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#4Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally. The existence of both groups is disappointing.
Contrary to popular opinion on HN, not all sources of news and information are exactly equivalent.
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#5I think it's hard to define what "believing QAnon" means at this point because the so-called Q drops read like vague fortune cookies that could mean any and everything.
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#6Many people are presented with 2 alternatives:
Alternative A) You are an ordinary person with an ordinary job and ordinary pasttimes. You fulfill your role in society like everyone else.
Alternative B) You have an important mission that will change the course of history, to spread the influence of .
If you are bored, tired of living a repetitive life and have no purpose in life, Alternative B) sounds fantastic. Now you feel needed, you feel special, etc. You have a mission to save the world from the
Conspiracy theories, religious fanatism, extreme nationalism, flat earth societies, sanitary anticompliance (anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers), climate change denial... they all have a thing in common: they are not rational and the people behind them are afraid of rationality and science.
Re: Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon, Other Conspiracy Theories
#7Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally. The existence of both groups is disappointing.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me. Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
Both groups trust that their chosen authority is the ultimate provider of truth, and generally prefer not to question that authority even when it leads to cognitive dissonance.
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#8Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally. The existence of both groups is disappointing.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me. Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
Yeah seriously. What a weird false equivalence to try to suggest.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me. Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
Both groups trust that their chosen authority is the ultimate provider of truth, and generally prefer not to question that authority even when it leads to cognitive dissonance.
All airplanes are boats because they both carry people.
It’s fine to question authority. But you don’t have to pick genuine idiocy because you lack faith in some journalistic institutions. Maybe you could just, idk be a little more skeptical instead of thinking pizza places house pedophiles? It’s idiocy. Why be gentle about it?
If your argument for buying into some of this stuff is “they’re all liars! That’s why I believed the stupidest possible thing” You seriously need to look in the mirror and do some self evaluation.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me. Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
Both groups trust that their chosen authority is the ultimate provider of truth, and generally prefer not to question that authority even when it leads to cognitive dissonance.
Can you give some examples?