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I used to be of the mind that ideas within the conspiracy theory realm were most likely utter nonsense. After Snowden and the DNC scandal, I've opened up the p
by wallace_f 9y ago
I used to be of the mind that ideas within the conspiracy theory realm were most likely utter nonsense. After Snowden and the DNC scandal, I've opened up the possibility for a lot more critical thought.
If you take a look at the conspiracy sub on reddit, which became popular after the DNC Scandal, while there is some nonsense, the most-upvoted stuff are often quite interesting. In fact, I find the userbase there in some ways more sane and rational than your typical political online forum, often being even quite the opposite of the identity politics seen in those places, ie the #3 most upvoted post this year is exactly that.(1)
1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6twr5k/the_only_power_that_scares_the_establishment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6twr5k/the_only...
- lostgame 9y agoNot sure why this is downvoted. Upvoted for being pretty on point.
- shostack 9y ago>" In fact, I find the userbase there in some ways more sane and rational than your typical political online forum" I'm confused by this statement. /r/conspiracy has been shown to have been heavily used by Russian bots/trolls to spread propaganda and truly fake news.
- wallace_f 9y agoCan you elaborate, or give an example? What about my example/observation screams 'Russian propoganda?' Russians want us to throw away identity politics and work together to fight against the abuses of the plutocracy?
- seppin 9y agoNo they want everyone to distrust one another, and tear down instead of reform.
- saiya-jin 9y agowhile this statement would generally fit the Russian (and not only) approach to foreign politics, you need to back it up with some proper facts. Otherwise you are just degrading whole discussion into crazy conspiracy mud
- mistermann 9y agoMaybe you should do some investigation into your confusion to determine which of your preconceptions are incorrect.
- la_oveja 9y agoi find amusing how people can fit "russian bots" in almost every sentence they dont agree with.
- arca_vorago 9y agoHey long time /r/conspiracy user here, and there are indeed some "Russian bots", but the real bots got started around 2011 ish when the gov started putting out bids in sock puppetry as a service aka persona management, so I'd say there is about an even distribution of bots between all the actors at play, be they Russian, TD, share blue, etc.
- rhcom2 9y agoThat post re enforces my view of /r/conspiracy posters as people who believe their ideas are "deep" but they really just remove all nuance and context.
- wallace_f 9y agoWell on this site as well I guess, as this turned out to be one of my most up-voted posts on this site.