• Altofaltception@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This is important.

      We also saw this happen with people who were opposed to lockdowns during the pandemic. Anyone who opposed lockdowns were immediately shunned as free-dumb convoyer types, not realizing that many people who opposed lockdowns did so because they were used instead of more effective methods to control the spread of the virus.

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      11 months ago

      Legitimate skepticism of the WEF shouldn’t be conflated with that of MAGA nuts and its not productive for journalists to skim past this concern without addressing it.

      That doesn’t have anything to do with conspiracy theories, though.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    I got super upset reading a New Yorker article about flat-earthers in 2018. My then-partner said I should let it go, “let them believe what they want to believe,” and “it doesn’t affect you.” My answer? “These people vote.”

    I’m so sick of this shit.