The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
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Just about all of them... Pick any conspiracy claim on this site, and ask how they know. Ask where they are getting their information from and to cite their sources.
You will be called a jew and a lazy bastard for not doing "your own research".
If you're looking for a specific example, this is the one that prompted me to post this: https://scored.co/c/Conspiracies/p/17t1fUBWR3/x/c/4ZBIe9CT7xP?d=50.
It was a 144p potato quality video of some idiot filming his computer screen. And he was on some website looking at a weather map of the US, pointing at colors on the screen and calling them "electromagnetic waves".
I pointed out that this guy didn't even tell anyone what site he was on or what map he was looking at, much less how he determined what he thought he was seeing. And like usual, some idiot comes in and tells me I should "do research" and stop being lazy.
So that's a pretty good microcosm to serve as an example of what I encounter on this board all the time. Some idiot makes a ridiculous claim with nothing to back it up, which took them 5 seconds to compose, and when you're skeptical of it, they try and give you a 5 hour homework assignment to disprove it. And of course even if you took up the challenge, and debunked their claim with an encyclopedic level of thoroughness, all that will happen is they won't read it.
I can sympathize with people that don't want to explain common and obvious truths to people who are brainwashed.
I have talked with conspiracy deniers who don't even accept basic common knowledge facts that are counter narrative, and I don't have time for that.
We make time for that! You aren't having a one-on-one conversation to persuade the other party, but rather a public discourse where the other party is actually a sockpuppet army whose collective goal is to persuade everyone reading.
Now do you see why truth tellers always lose?
I disagree with the always lose part. The sockpuppet account is definitely possible.
I think the biggest problem with spreading the truth is that most people can't handle it. Even "no nonsense" Adam Carolla said if it were true that 9/11 was an inside job he didn't want to know because it would mess up his perception of reality. Basically like "hey don't spoil my good time".
So you get to sit back and take 5 seconds to say "nuhhh uhhh, Retailers aren't leaving the city in droves, you're being dramatic".
And I am supposed to respond by reading and linking to 15 articles?
Yeah, no....
You provide sources.... You read and link to me 15 articles telling me why the murders and shootings shown here don't count: https://heyjackass.com
Where are you quoting me from? It doesn't look like something I said in this thread.
Oops... My bad... Dropped a comment in the wrong thread.
What you encountered was one of the fake accounts that exists to make the readers believe--just by looking at the username--that there are a good number of people here who believe the Q hoax. Those are almost certainly sockpuppets.
Just wait until you realize that some of the loudest people here are actually just Muslims pushing their beliefs that come from Islam about Jews.
They let the mask slip enough. Piss drinkers, they muddy the waters with their bs.
That is a misdirection.
Holy shit... I never even considered that, but it would make total sense.