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> 40% of what you see is right wing conspiracy theorists Right in a post complaining labelling, a labeling slapping to my face. I am a bit depressed by our sp

> 40% of what you see is right wing conspiracy theorists Right in a post complaining labelling, a labeling slapping to my face. I am a bit depressed by our species ability to do rational thinking.

ng-user 9y ago
A little contradictory, I concur. Does claiming someone is a member of ISIS automatically make you a right-wing conspiracy theorist or is it different under these circumstances? How is the number 40% actually determined, surely it must be an assumption from scrolling through the feed for a little while? To my knowledge it's difficult (near impossible without 3rd party tools) to determine in real-time the number of tweets pertaining to a certain topic.
- ssaew333 9y ago
  I thought it was clear from my post i was guesstimating. I don't typically do rigorous analysis of what I see in twitter results, so I'll just say, it seemed like a lot of right wing accounts implying that media was covering up the shooting, or that the shooter was actually motivated by radical islam.
  - justicezyx 9y ago
    Right, this statement, if were used by the original post, to me, is quite accurate.
gameswithgo 9y ago
>I am a bit depressed by our species ability to do rational thinking. you can do your part by quit being a right wing conspiracy theorist?
kurthr 9y ago
Please stop labeling the labelers it's labelist. ... and so is this.
ssaew333 9y ago
I wasn't complaining about labeling. I was complaining because assertions that she was an NRA or ISIS supporter were false. I believe my assertions were true. Here are the first two people I saw on my twitter search: Jack Posobiec Wikipedia: "John Michael "Jack" Posobiec III (/pəˈsoʊbɪk/ pə-SOW-bik; born 1985) is an American alt-right[1][2][3] internet troll, conspiracy theorist,[4][5] and self-described journalist, known primarily for his controversial and pro-Donald Trump comments on Twitter." He was claiming that google removed her videos from youtube as part of a coverup because she didn't fit the narrative of conservative white males causing mass shootings Laura Loomer Wikipedia: "Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an alt-right[1] American political activist and Internet personality. She was a reporter for Canada's The Rebel Media during the summer of 2017, resigning that September.[2][3][4][5][6] Prior to June 2017, she worked for Project Veritas with James O'Keefe.[3]" Her tweets are calling the youtube shooting "an act of jihad". Also made a tweet that seemed to imply, because the shooter has an androgynous name and muscular build, that she could be trans. As if that has anything to do with it.
- chillingeffect 9y ago
  I followed this story last night into a live youtube stream where the presenter asserted everything with an authoritative voice: After bumbling his way through some half-hearted doxing attempts and watching her videos, he was smugly confident in his extrapolations of her psychological diagnosis, political affiliations, family history, &c. And his commenters formed a sycophantic chorus. Ideology is the failure of a mental model to adapt to error. It's an inflexible coping strategy that rams all perceptions into presuppositions. Its air of authority is evidence of the delusion, not of successful reality-checking.
  - Balgair 9y ago
    Whenever I see these people my mind goes back to Annihilation Elvis from Akira, the semblance is usually stark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_mg2w95D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_mg2w95D0

> 40% of what you see is right wing conspiracy theorists Right in a post complaining labelling, a labeling slapping to my face. I am a bit depressed by our species ability to do rational thinking.

ng-user 9y ago

A little contradictory, I concur. Does claiming someone is a member of ISIS automatically make you a right-wing conspiracy theorist or is it different under these circumstances? How is the number 40% actually determined, surely it must be an assumption from scrolling through the feed for a little while? To my knowledge it's difficult (near impossible without 3rd party tools) to determine in real-time the number of tweets pertaining to a certain topic.

ssaew333 9y ago
I thought it was clear from my post i was guesstimating. I don't typically do rigorous analysis of what I see in twitter results, so I'll just say, it seemed like a lot of right wing accounts implying that media was covering up the shooting, or that the shooter was actually motivated by radical islam.
- justicezyx 9y ago
  Right, this statement, if were used by the original post, to me, is quite accurate.

gameswithgo 9y ago

>I am a bit depressed by our species ability to do rational thinking. you can do your part by quit being a right wing conspiracy theorist?

kurthr 9y ago

Please stop labeling the labelers it's labelist. ... and so is this.

ssaew333 9y ago

I wasn't complaining about labeling. I was complaining because assertions that she was an NRA or ISIS supporter were false. I believe my assertions were true. Here are the first two people I saw on my twitter search: Jack Posobiec Wikipedia: "John Michael "Jack" Posobiec III (/pəˈsoʊbɪk/ pə-SOW-bik; born 1985) is an American alt-right[1][2][3] internet troll, conspiracy theorist,[4][5] and self-described journalist, known primarily for his controversial and pro-Donald Trump comments on Twitter." He was claiming that google removed her videos from youtube as part of a coverup because she didn't fit the narrative of conservative white males causing mass shootings Laura Loomer Wikipedia: "Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an alt-right[1] American political activist and Internet personality. She was a reporter for Canada's The Rebel Media during the summer of 2017, resigning that September.[2][3][4][5][6] Prior to June 2017, she worked for Project Veritas with James O'Keefe.[3]" Her tweets are calling the youtube shooting "an act of jihad". Also made a tweet that seemed to imply, because the shooter has an androgynous name and muscular build, that she could be trans. As if that has anything to do with it.

chillingeffect 9y ago
I followed this story last night into a live youtube stream where the presenter asserted everything with an authoritative voice: After bumbling his way through some half-hearted doxing attempts and watching her videos, he was smugly confident in his extrapolations of her psychological diagnosis, political affiliations, family history, &c. And his commenters formed a sycophantic chorus. Ideology is the failure of a mental model to adapt to error. It's an inflexible coping strategy that rams all perceptions into presuppositions. Its air of authority is evidence of the delusion, not of successful reality-checking.
- Balgair 9y ago
  Whenever I see these people my mind goes back to Annihilation Elvis from Akira, the semblance is usually stark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_mg2w95D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_mg2w95D0