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You are examining the world as a "marketplace of ideas", which is a good first order approximation to how the world works, but people like Alex Jones are market
by tmh79 8y ago
You are examining the world as a "marketplace of ideas", which is a good first order approximation to how the world works, but people like Alex Jones are market failures in the Market of ideas. Supporters of his are not using information to make rationally informed decisions, they are making post-hoc justifications for their pre-determined belief set that broadly includes a lot of hate.