Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 8 2021 04:52am)

Its purely an issue with people having limited cognitive ability. If people were able to think logically more than a few steps on a chessboard, conspiracy theories would fall apart. That's not some physiological chemical imbalance specific to a few nutters, its a common trait through our entire population, because the vast majority of people are morons. The same threads of illogic are present in those few isolated tinfoil conspiracy wackos who thought 9/11 was an inside job, as are present in the mainstream democratic party that thinks Trump was in cahoots with Russia, or the Qanon believers who think celebrities are all in on some child sex ring. They're people of the land. The common clay of the new west.

Quote (lodd222 @ 11 Sep 2021 20:33)

Conspiracy theory is the word elitists have trickled down & coined and used to cover up the sociological notion of conflict theory, elite bias, deviance or a system that serves to protect the few that rule over it. A year "before covid" one could be a "ocd" certified crazy germaphobe in "isolation" & the next they are taking protective measures for healthy "social distancing", doctors would be doing the very thing they were persecuting their patients or clients for & wouldn't be the 1st time.

How quickly the paradigm's false dichotomy is revealed when they can spin even the nomenclature to persecute the truthers.

Only those with a strange form of Stockholm syndrome(mostly vaccinated unfortunately) would romanticize their capitalist overlords & regurgitate misinformation from mostly their televisions as though they were doing something productive like a mother penguin. They're pharmakeia indoctrination calls this "mirror neurons" or learning by shaping but in really it's just a hijack of the their mind through malevolent spiritual forces emulating the self who would also have the innocent think they are merely their flesh and not a living soul there within with the power to imagine, create, and live as a unique benevolent being instead of a number in part of a robotic malevolent slave system.

Quote (thundercock @ Sep 11 2021 04:03pm)

It's not "purely" an issue of limited cognitive ability. There are a lot of stupid people out there who don't believe in conspiracy theories who live perfectly normal lives. There's the aspect of "someone" trying to "get you." Having irrational distrust in institutions is part of the problem. Hell, there's even a special name for the stupid people who don't question authority: sheep.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 11 2021 02:11pm)

IMO we need to add a new psychological illness to the DSM. "Main character syndrome". It's when somebody gets past their twenties and doesn't let go of the idea that they are the main character with super special insight that others just can't see because of how special they are. It would describe virtually all of these conspiracy nutters.

Quote (JessiWan @ Sep 11 2021 04:21pm)

Funny cause I think we should add a new illness: an exaggerated sense of trust towards the government, major news media, big pharma, and big corporations. And maybe: a compulsion to police other people's thoughts, to want control over other people, to dictate to other people how to live their lives and how to govern themselves.

You lefties aren't the only ones who can pathologize others.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 11 2021 02:44pm)

Those people don't exist though. You're just making a cariacature. You won't find a leftist or even many liberals who really trust the government, news media, pharma, etc.

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When you say businesses shouldn't be able to exclude people who aren't vaccinated that is literally you advocating for policing others thoughts and trying to control them, because having a right to predicate your association on whatever you want is freedom.

Quote (JessiWan @ Sep 11 2021 04:51pm)

Then I can also say conspiracy theorists don't exist and are just a caricature that you made up.

Do we have to do this again?

No, I am not trampling on businesses' rights in any way. They are already prohibited by law from not discriminating based on certain things. So sorry, there is already no such a thing as "right to predicate your association with whoever you want" for businesses.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 11 2021 02:57pm)

They are not prohibited by law from discriminating based on vaccination status.

Quote (JessiWan @ Sep 11 2021 04:58pm)

This can be changed. And I say it needs to.