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More like Democrats eat babies type shit. They can't be reasoned with facts or anything. In another thread someone was talking about their friend who got sucked in. He tries to talk to her about Disney and Marvel, the stuff they used to share interest in, to avoid the conspiracy stuff but she would change the subject back to the conspiracy shit every time.
The internet is really good at creating echo-chambers without anyone to question some line of thought. Something to always be mindful of regardless of who you are I reckon.
I noticed just the other day that one of my neighbors has a big Q sticker on his pickup truck
Q Anon followers have murdered people, kidnapped children, and all manner of other crimes and misdemeanors. It's very dangerous and essentially a cult.
Some are fake, it's Reddit, but even if only half the stories are real then that's insane in itself. And I'm willing to bet it's more than half that are real, the motivations to lie about something so awful and humiliating are pretty low, even anonymously on the Internet.
The people pushing the horseshit have a financial interest in keeping people hooked so they end up using cult-like tactics in a kind of decentralized way. That, plus it's intertwined with American Christianity in some weird ways and the selling point of "pedophiles!" makes it easy to suck people in.
Dude. I know. She lives in the mountains of hawaii in poverty. I support her and got her a laptop so she could get her GED but she..as an old woman experienced the internet the same way we did as kids. She almost fell for a nigerian prince scam. I'm not fucking kidding. I had to beg her to never give money to a person she doesn't know without consulting me. She does think Trump is the devil and is awful but she DID fall for the Plandemic video. She sent me and my girlfriend a novels worth of word vomit begging us to never be vaccinated because Bill Gates and Fauci want to mind control us or something. I only responded with "No". That's literally the last thing i said to her. I Dont know what to do at this point. I guess use it as an excuse to cut her out of my life. But yeah. She thinks the government is hiding the existence of a second sun. Oh. She thinks 50 foot giants skeletons were found in the caves of hawaii. Lol
It's sad, because the internet used to be a place where that sort of stuff was refuted. But then, social media became the largest message board in the world and relied on algorithms to put people into like minded groups instead of people choosing where they got information.
Older folks don't have the requisite digital and internet literacy to be able to discern fact from fiction effectively online. A lot of people cannot distinguish between a reputable website and an unreputable one full of bullshit. These are skills you pick up early on in internet usage and through the modern education system, but older folks largely finished their education by the time the internet was even in its infancy and thus it was just thrust upon them with no guidance pretty much.
