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> I saw my mom gradually become a Sandy Hook "truther" as she fell deep down Facebook rabbitholes. It was bad. Although she eventually came around (...) Mind s

• CoastalCoder 2y ago
  I'm not in his camp, but trying to play Devil's Advocate for your benefit: Are you sure that your arguments are more solid than his? E.g., are you and he both relying on outside source of information, which neither of you have the time / resources / motivation to verify? And if so, are you and he just assigning different levels of trust in a given source? When I've been in situations slightly similar to yours, I was disheartened to realize that my own justifications weren't as solid as I originally thought. That is, I was still pretty well convinced of my own position, but I realized that the main reason for it was a judgment call and intuition, rather than an unassailable argument.
• lynndotpy 2y ago
  She spends almost all of her time on Facebook, and I'm just guessing her feed changed eventually. I remember her being convinced that the parents weren't reacting like she'd expect a grieving parent to. She was deep in Sandy Hook Truther groups. I wish I could say it was arguments and logic and reasoning, or the pain being borne by the community around her. But I think she just believes everything she sees on Facebook, and Facebook stopped showing her Sandy Hook Truther stuff.