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[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah it can even be less sinister. The dumbest people can all hear someone of perceived authority (like someone on Rogan for example) who says “there’s actually no proof the world is round” and the idiots can be like “I knew it! I was right all along!” And they’ll never accept anything else because they were “proven right” that one time

It’s the complete degradation of (capital T) Truth

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah absolutely, although more often than not those people also tend to have hair-raisingly awful "political" opinions (ie. opinions which only qualify as politics for conservatives, but would usually land anybody else in jail)

[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah it’s all bundled together. Before the internet, there were established authorities on certain matters. Now any idiot can go on twitter and claim to be a MD and fool a bunch of other idiots into thinking vaccines are deadly and used for brainwashing.

Like I said before, it’s the complete erosion of actual Truth

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