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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replace:

X - Earth is round Y - Earth is flat

and read again. Some Y people probably started existing this way, because other Y people didn't reject them even though Y makes no sense and wasn't proven.

... but idk i could be wrong

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most conspiracy theories really have little to do with the belief itself, the people that get sucked in are often just lonely and looking for a purpose.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also believe that a lot of conspiracy theories were started as jokes, with a core group of reasonably smart people LARPing a ridiculous position. What I wonder about is how many of those people LARPed so long and hard that they came to believe their own BS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

More likely, a bunch of people joined who didn't understand it was a joke (fairly common online)