It's hard to tell the real conspiracies from the fake ones.
Suggested reading: The Texas GOP 2024 platform.[1]
Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
21–30 of 99 posts
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#22The question I ask with these studies is "what is a conspiracy?", because there is a big difference between people who think the world is flat and people who think there is something fishy about, say, the Jeff Epstein saga. In this case we seem to be talking about the conspiracy mentality questionnaire [0]. So they've found a correlation between loneliness and what seems to be a 5 question survey. To me, this says th…
That's a pretty awful poll. 3 is essentially a statement of fact, 5 is describing any "dark money" PAC, and 2 is a healthy skepticism of people who are asking to have enormous power over us.
I dunno about awful, it is exactly what it says on the tin - do people have a "conspiracy mentality"? It is just easy to misinterpret as a negative when it is not.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#23During Covid I lived alone after I had moved away from anyone I knew. I didn’t mind it too much but one of the effects was that I fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole. Looking back on it I find it hard to understand what my thought process was. On one hand it makes sense but on the other it doesn’t anymore (because I don’t believe in it). Without anyone else around you can talk yourself into believing some pretty wild…
This doesn't resonate with me, but it strangely does because that timeframe just had these weird artifacts.
I rejected the conspiracy theories and machismo-empowerment waves of 2016 and 2019, and found myself completely isolated. My conservative friends said "join us" and my liberal friends said I wasn't woke. Kinda thought that was a fever that would pass, but besides my closest friends and family, that restaging was surprisingly permanent.
I came into my own back in freshman year of college when I was convinced about 9/11 being fishy by "Loose Change." If true, that's outrageous! So I then kept looking into it and came to understand conspiracy theories and skepticism. It's so sad. All of my friends left and right are conspiracy theorists now, 20 years later. Anti-progress pendulum or something.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#24Dale Gribble’s close friends Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer exist as a counterpoint to this argument.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#25Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#26During Covid I lived alone after I had moved away from anyone I knew. I didn’t mind it too much but one of the effects was that I fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole. Looking back on it I find it hard to understand what my thought process was. On one hand it makes sense but on the other it doesn’t anymore (because I don’t believe in it). Without anyone else around you can talk yourself into believing some pretty wild…
This doesn't resonate with me, but it strangely does because that timeframe just had these weird artifacts. I rejected the conspiracy theories and machismo-empowerment waves of 2016 and 2019, and found myself completely isolated. My conservative friends said "join us" and my liberal friends said I wasn't woke. Kinda thought that was a fever that would pass, but besides my closest friends and family, that restaging wa…
Welcome to the 21st century. It’s only gonna get worse.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#27The question I ask with these studies is "what is a conspiracy?", because there is a big difference between people who think the world is flat and people who think there is something fishy about, say, the Jeff Epstein saga. In this case we seem to be talking about the conspiracy mentality questionnaire [0]. So they've found a correlation between loneliness and what seems to be a 5 question survey. To me, this says th…
Note: That's the final five questions in a 38 question survey with 33 primer questions about specific conspiracy theories. It wasn't just 5 questions.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#28> Conspiracy theories undermined global efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus during the pandemic
What? Which ones? Undermined how?
> and were used in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, raid on the Capitol.
I thought a major political party was involved. Not 'conspiracy theorists'.
> They lie at the core of political and social polarization
Really? Conspiracy theorists lie at the core of political and social polarization?
> fueling vaccine skepticism, climate change skepticism
Well then address the skepticism and move on. What's the issue here?
> and anti-science movements such as the flat earthers
Flat earthers? Are we really suppose to pretend flat earthers have taken control over?
No specifics given. It's almost like this study and article was created solely for political purposes.
What's the point of this 'study' and article? Don't question authority?
What's a bigger conspiracy theory than 'lonely conspiracy theorist flat earthers influence global pandemic contaiment efforts'?
Does anyone seriously believe lonely conspiracy theorists influence anything? That's a sillier conspiracy than reptilian aliens influencing world affairs.
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#29[flagged]
Re: Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
#30Dale Gribble’s close friends Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer exist as a counterpoint to this argument.
They don't actually exist, they're cartoons. They can't provide a counterpoint to arguments about the real world.