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These discussions are used to suck the oxygen out of the room. There is no purposed served to have the same discussion over and over and over. No progress is ma
by _DeadFred_ 1y ago
These discussions are used to suck the oxygen out of the room. There is no purposed served to have the same discussion over and over and over. No progress is made repeating the same discussion. But the people willing to argue for reality are slowly warn down, with the goal being to get them to remove themselves from the discourse. The goal is not honest discussion (of a discussion already had thousands of times). The goal is a state of apathy with regards to the truth, not a seeking of truth.
- nemo44x 1y agoSometimes they’re right. Lab leak people dismissed by experts for example. I guess there’s a spectrum of fringe ideas. Some are ridiculous, true. Trolls. But they have no power of policy - flat earthers for example are harmless. The more dangerous threat are people with consensus based on political power who appeal to authority, like bad science by “experts”, to silence criticism or challenges.