i think seeing young people earnestly buy into conspiracies bums me out because i was convinced our generation was gonna be skeptical af
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i vividly remember seeing my aunts and uncles pass around blatantly fake chain-emails and thinking "hah! my generation would never do that"
like… our generation grew up with computers! we have access to infinite, instant fact-checking. you'd think we'd be the best skeptics
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i can't go 12 hours without seeing some fully fake shit on tumblr get 30,000 reblogs because the person who typed it put some words in bold
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in closing, everything is fake and we're all dumbasses
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our generation also lacks direction and tries to scrape meaning out of the smallest coincidences
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im convinced that cheeto nick couldnt handle the fame and was replaced by current nick robinson. u cant disagree its a conspiracy theory...
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We can't even agree on what facts are though :(
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the Earth is flat dude, get over it
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That's too difficult. It's easier to believe whatever aligns with your own personal beliefs regardless of facts.
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I think the percentage of people who actually use the internet for fact-checking is pretty low in comparison. Kinda sad.
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Pfft, fact checking is too easy! Why would I do that?
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depends on the conspiracy theory. sometimes they're just fun to buy into because it's fun to believe in something obviously wacky
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