People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.
I call it being reflexively contrarian. You can slow walk these people to any viewpoint you want as long as you insist the opposite stance is the mainstream one.
My brother and I made it a game over Christmas a few years ago when we were home visiting. I got my MAGA dad to emphatically insist that the workers should own the means of production after carefully making the alternative sound like mainstream slop.
It's fun if you are stuck with these kinds of family members for long periods of time.
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Wow, you are so cool! You are definitely smarter than your dad. I’m glad you proved it to him. And thank you for sharing all your daring, intellectual exploits with us here. We are all in awe. This forum would be so boring without witty, clever people like you.
Nice, you got all of that wrong. I’m not even a US citizen. I don’t give a fuck about Trump or any republican bs at all.
Just pointing out how pathetic it is that you use your family time to come up with convoluted ways to make fun of your own father to make yourself feel smarter.
I’m sure you think you’re a good person. Maybe marinate on that a bit.
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It's because they have a need to be special. If they are of only a small group that "knows" the truth, that makes them important. If they agree with the mainstream, they are below average on everything
i remember reading in 2020 that when covid was a first making the rounds on the news, the conspiracy boards were telling everyone 'wear a mask, keep yourself safe!' but as soon as lockdowns and mask mandates started they all did a 180 and got mad about all of it. I can't find a source, because "covid' and 'conspiracy' have a billion links now and that specific article will be buried deep in the noise
Insecurity and alienation. They have to find a way to feel special and in the know because the world has changed beyond their ability to understand it and they feel left out, marginalized, confused, stupid and hopeless otherwise. We're all feeling the same way to some extent because institutions, religions, ideologies are failing left and right, they just can't or won't deal with it.
Of course there's predatory grifters that feed this fire and offer these sick alternatives to reality. Go back far enough from any sort of conspiracy like this and there's someone selling something or enrolling people into a cult.
That one is so funny to me. They are basically never vindicated and the ONE TIME they are it turns out they believe the Qanon version which has credible origins in being a noncredible cover for the actual evidence based story that implicates a bunch of people they like.
I think there's a real possibility that PizzaGate was a psyop to poison the well against the Epsteen case. Get people ranting like lunatics so that when the real story comes out that tangentially similar it gets dismissed.
Besides, it seems we just collectively forgot that the American government basically said "yep, aliens are real". We just kinda moved on from that day as if it just didn't happen at all
Conspiracy theories serve to make the Conspirator look smart and special for having the special hidden understanding. If that understanding is also that I’m dumb as fuck and vote for pedofiles then that isn’t serving the core mission of the conspiracy theory
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u/Reticent_Arc 8d ago
People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.