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Correct. No one can deal with all that shit. But it's distributed. You can ignore most of it, or all of it if you want. There are plenty of us autists to overwh
by memish 5y ago
Correct. No one can deal with all that shit. But it's distributed. You can ignore most of it, or all of it if you want. There are plenty of us autists to overwhelm it.
Sending Flat Earthers off to their own dark corner is how they become entrenched. Leave them in the public square, in broad daylight, so they are exposed to evidence to the contrary. That's how you defeat bad ideas over time.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoEmpirically, that doesn’t work. Bringing misinformation into the public square simply allows it to spread. It’s almost immune to “evidence to the contrary”, at least for those who are apt to believe misinformation and conspiracy theories.
- sneak 5y agoEmpirically, the church is still here, and yet we mostly now hold heliocentric beliefs. We didn't need to censor anyone to get here. On longer timescales, the truth wins, because it is real, and everything else is not. False beliefs are persistent but simply can't compete with reality.
- mirceal 5y agothis approach of letting people air bs and having them be shamed by the level-headed individuals may work if the people airing the bs are just misinformed but are open to a discussion and changing their mind. a lot of people, on the internet, are not open to this and will chose the bs over any fact, argument, reason.