First Sandy Hook trutherism, now hurricane trutherism? God and Al Gore are running a false flag operation?https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/7/16258848/us-climate-politics-farce …
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Replying to @wycats
How do people become so broken that they listen to nonsense like this?
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Replying to @AdamRackis
Partisanship and tribalism is a strong force. There are (much, much) weaker equivalents on the left if introspection is your thing.
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
Like 9/11 trutherism, certain flavors of GMO hysteria, certain flavors of the Russia conspiracy theory.
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
I say "certain flavors" because there are plausible arguments inside each of the latter two movements.
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
Related: how does anyone believe in homeopathic remedies?
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Replying to @wycats
No arguments here. The GMO stuff is the worst. People literally dying because of leftist science illiteracy.
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Replying to @AdamRackis
I really do not mean to imply equivalence. Nobody with the cultural cachet of Limbaugh on the left denies something as simple as hurricanes.
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
I guess one blind spot is "all corporations only care about profit" which causes people to miss other, better explanations for bad behavior
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
For example, Google's bad behavior re AMP is partially driven by profit motive, but also driven by ego of individual devs and ...
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... cultural mistakes and biases of groups of individual engineers. Profits can enable, but are often not the driving factor ...
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
... this matters because if you want to fix it, you need to appeal to the real motivations, not the caricature.
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Replying to @wycats @AdamRackis
Anyway all of that was just in an effort to explain how groups of people can believe craziness like "hurricanes are a left wing conspiracy"
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