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As far as I can tell, simply watching news is enough to get entangled with the loonies.

• krapp 5y ago
  On the contrary, the loonies are the ones who refuse to watch the news because they believe it's controlled by evil Marxist puppetmasters, while believing anything Youtube, Twitter or Facebook tell them. As bad as the news gets, it isn't going to tell you Bill Gates is putting mind-control chips into COVID vaccines, or that the Presidential election was stolen by a conspiracy of Chinese communists and Democratic party pedophile cultists, or that Jewish space lasers are responsible for forest fires. It may report on those beliefs and their effects elsewhere, but unlike the internet, won't assert them as fact, or let you form a comfortable bubble of alternate reality around yourself where those beliefs are only ever reinforced, but never questioned.
  • wodenokoto 5y ago
    They are also the ones brigading the comment section on news segments.
    • krapp 5y ago
      Yeah, Hacker News is starting to become as allergic to nuance as it is to humor.