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Buying into fringe nuttery does not make you more of a critical thinker than someone who accepts prevailing orthodoxy.The issue isn't listening to experts. It's being a person who repeats what they have heard without troubling their brain.
I agree. Better than an unwitting political pawn.
So because we listen to actual experts on the field we are pawns.
And that’s worse than these nutters who get their info from a cult? The same people who have zero idea of law and are acting like selfish brats?
Interesting take.
No, you should listen to the experts. If you are told two conflicting things you should be asking why.
I'm hoping for people to be a bit more cynical and a whole lot less eager to repeat what they are told is fact as though it affords them some extra significance.
Buying into fringe nuttery does not make you more of a critical thinker than someone who accepts prevailing orthodoxy.
To the contrary, squaring this sort of rubbish involves turning off one's brain more than usual.
The choice isn't between one or the other. It's made about everything in your life. Little choices, small moments.And I do ask why. It’s an easy answer though.
On 1 side we have experts in their field and on the other individuals with zero experience or knowledge in the field who found a cult website.
That's true, there isn't much more validating to a human brain than feeling part of an exclusive club. This is why I'm surprised there aren't more women cult leaders, we learn this stuff years and years before the boys do.One thing true of all cults is the belief that they operate and have an understanding of the world that that is at an elevated level to the rest of us rabble. QAnon is no exception.
The use of masks has been an openly debated issue amongst medical experts since the beginning of the crisis.Perhaps your right. Suggesting that the reason we were told masks could actually make it worse was that we didn't have enough to support our medical staff if the population started using them would have been fringe conspiracy nuttery. It would also have been correct.
Are there any conspiracies that aren't about a large power body against the people?
It's very useful for suggestions that would be counter to the powerful message to be considered fringe nutty positions. That would make it easier to discount them.
The choice isn't between one or the other. It's made about everything in your life. Little choices, small moments.
The best thing to come of all this mask business is that some more people will have woken up to the reality that the government doesn't trust you and won't tell you the whole story - so be mindful when they are trying to sell you something.
The medical experts want everyone in a mask, the politicians couldn't facilitate that so they distort the message.Listening to medical experts is not a political exercise.
But the loonies layer their contrarian views with anything from mundane conspiracies, to nebulous claims of active forces seeking control, to the whole pandemic being a failed attempt to seed the populace with alien DNA.On a scale of these looneys to those who carry a banner now saying "wear a mask" but it used to say "masks don't work" because that's what they were told, I think we would have a better world leaning closer to the loonies.
But the loonies layer their contrarian views with anything from mundane conspiracies, to nebulous claims of active forces seeking control, to the whole pandemic being a failed attempt to seed the populace with alien DNA.
You can’t present a rational idea with totally irrational claims and expect people to listen. What should we listen to the loonies about? The aliens? Soros?
I'm listening to the medical experts, not the politicians.The medical experts want everyone in a mask, the politicians couldn't facilitate that so they distort the message.
QAnon, also known as The Storm and The Great Awakening, is a conspiracy theory, popular meme,[6] and right wing fantasy about a "deep state" conspiracy against President Trump. Following on the heels of similar bullshit, such as Pizzagate (which occupies a small spot on the QAnon map below), it advances a fantastic web of deceit that wraps up Trumpism, deep state fearmongering, evil, satanic pedophilia rings controlled by the Democratic Party, investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, the Las Vegas shooting, and New World Order paranoia into a package easily and wholeheartedly promoted by internet cesspools and Alex Jones.[7][4] It originated from a series of incoherent posts on 4chan in 2017 by someone calling themselves Q.[8] The name is likely based on the US government's top secret Q clearance.The theories put forth in the conspiracy mirror anti-semitic tropes that have been used for centuries.
Only the High Court. These sovereign citizen nutters don't recognise the authority of lower courts.The Bunnings Karen is such a hypocrite
She says she will not comply because she doesn't believe in the law but then wants to use the exact same legal system to sue everyone
Only the High Court. These sovereign citizen nutters don't recognise the authority of lower courts.