…not really. He’s gone further right, and he has gone Daily Wire (sellout). Both regrettably. But he’s nothing like the actual far right. He’s a long, long way from holding a tiki torch in Charlottesville.
I suppose it depends on how we define that term. I view Daily Wire as far right for sure. Let’s drop it though, I don’t really feel like discussing politics to be honest. If I brought it up, my bad. I know I brought up billionaires.
To be fair, you’re selling yourself short. Those that misinterpret your message don’t want to understand it. There’s clearly plenty of motivated reasoning going on here, and it’s nothing new in regard to this topic. Honestly, at this point, and having participated in these topics over the years, I really don’t think they’re worth engaging in. No one’s minds change generally, and these threads often devolve into petty bickering.
Disclaimer: this is not to rag on anyone here. I respect everyone here, as a matter of fact. If I happen to forget myself, and what I believe, I do apologize.
Its already been proven with tomottos several times.
Which Im sure you’re aware.
Are you also aware that buzzwords like “conspiracy theorist tinfoil hats… Racists ahem” have lost their power and people are noticing the hows and whys of such words.
Meant to silence discussion.
Not really anything more…
They dont pay people to do reviews?
Yeah thats what talk shows are bucko…
AHHHH you think people get paid and ONLY TELL THE TRUTH lol…
Billionaires and more importantly millionaires are, in my estimation, not that much more likely than the general population to attempt to cheat. They are, however, far more likely to succeed and to get away with it. It’s that last part that’s the problem. We have very solid social solutions for dealing with sociopaths who aren’t wealthy. Those who are wealthy, not so much.
You’re imagining some illuminati nonsense, but I’m thinking OJ Simpson.
Also, no, I don’t think there’s just one far right group, although I think they’re more similar than they want to believe. Its common on the political extremes for groups to fragment over relatively minor disagreements and to engage in purity spirals.
There can be more than one contributing factor, and I can’t say with confidence that the advent of social media is not a bigger contributor. But there is no single cause, and if that is a significant or even a larger factor it doesn’t disprove what I claimed.
They could even be interrelated. It makes sense that people who can’t go outside would be unduly influenced by said media, and deprived of contact with IRL friends and acquaintances who would otherwise have a normalizing effect.
I’m not the one who wrote the research papers from BEFORE the pandemic on the effect of quarantine on conspiracy theories. I just read them. Well, the abstracts anyway.
I am not exactly convinced that they’re wrong, but it’s not really the hill I want to die on either. Like I said, all I did was read some abstracts.
If you protest so much, perhaps seek those authors out and give them a piece of your mind. I assume you can Google them yourself.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been into scientific skepticism for about 16 or 17 years. From my perspective, conspiracy theories have basically always been popular, and woo in general.
If you linked the paper, I missed it. Could you link it (again)? I’m curious as to the methodology. Is it merely a poll?
This is a paper I recall from over a decade ago while I was in university. I am not going to attempt to find it again.
It’s even possible it can’t be Googled. I don’t remember if I was at the university library using one of those fancy subscription services or not. What I do recall vividly was that I spent a moment on it even though it had absolutely nothing to do with what I was working on. Just found it interesting so I procrastinated doing the real work.
Maybe it was terrible research. I don’t know. Didn’t seem like.
But I remembered the conclusion when lockdowns were announced, so the significant increase in conspiracy theories didn’t surprise me.
At least the statistics are available and are generally good. Way back in the 90’s we didn’t really have this kind of broad data to pull from playing CCG’s. It was all about group think and comparing decks amongst a group of top players. That’s how we found the best decks and even then we didn’t exactly have instant access to developers to clarify a cards wording.
It may not be perfect data but it’s better than nothing.
I don’t even know what you’re even attempting to say with this word salad.
Hearthstone data websites aren’t paying people to come on to Hearthstone Forums to say the Hearthstone data websites are amazing and that Hearthstone is amazing.
Don’t have a clue what chaos you’re talking about when it comes to talk shows. Might as well be talking about Chuck in a Truck’s local delivery service going on to his own yahoo reviews to leave good messages about himself. Absolute zero to do with the discussion at hand here.
Yeah, good 1 bro. Way to go off course into loony toons land.
EDIT:
Ah, just read more of your history of posting and now I know the intellectual identity of who I am talking to. You’re basically an Alex Jones clone. Consider this my last reply to you ever. It must be mentally tiresome living in your world of fantasy.
Yeah the theories really started mounting when the big bosses were all
“WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE IF YOU DONT STAY HOME”
“No its okay if I go to dinner parties and those other people do the rioting… NO YOU CANT GO SEE GRANDMA SHE HAS TO DIE IN ISOLATION, no u cant go to church either… gimme money”
Also, do you seriously believe that you can just tell people that they can’t go outside and that it ISN’T going to have significant effects on psychological and physical health? I mean, let’s not even get into the argument about whether the drawbacks were worth the benefits of lockdown, but can’t you at least acknowledge that there were serious drawbacks and that these drawbacks were not purely economic in nature?
There has never any will never be a quarantine/lockdown without some affluent people acting like that. No matter what rules are made, there will be rulebreakers. So you’re not at all contradicting my point.