• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, we should invent new words for this, they aren’t stupid, they weaponise stupidity for their own gains.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      8 hours ago

      i remember the days before conservatives antivaxxers took over the sub, right befor trump was elected. you can actually have a conversation with them, without having them doubling down.

    • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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      23 hours ago

      This is a hobby with flat Earthers, MAGA, and antivaxxers. They make weird shit up and then pretend to believe it. Numerology. Conspiracy theories. They dont think there is any harm in it and like to troll “the libs” and debate them to waste everyone’s time. The bad thing is that you get a portion of them that start truly believing these tales … we have a few dozen holding US offices now.

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      Yeah, this. They don’t want to know facts. They are actively resisting reality. Doesn’t matter that ~40 people per million per two doses had adverse effects to the vaccine and most likely recovered just fine while hundreds of thousands got sick and died from the disease and who knows how many survived because they were vaccinated.

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        Yeah, they (OP or whoever told OP about it) probably started reading the paper with a predetermined conclusion and read until they found the data that “supported” it.

        They “did their own research”