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>It's a hobby. Mostly harmless. A whole bunch of current disinformation comes from people having fun with misinformation and dumb people believing it until the
by colechristensen 10mo ago
>It's a hobby. Mostly harmless.
A whole bunch of current disinformation comes from people having fun with misinformation and dumb people believing it until the idea makes a life of its own.
It's not harmless at all. A lot of explicitly nefarious people use this technique to engineer the population so they can be controlled.
- cratermoon 10mo agoPoe's Law applies.
- Geee 10mo agoAre you talking about religion?
- protocolture 10mo agoYes. Ancient Aliens, Flerf nonsense, Tartarian nonsense. All religions.
- colechristensen 10mo agoNot particularly. Flat earth, anti-vax, alt-right -- a significant influencer in these things and others were early trolls ... being trolls. The fun of keeping a straight face while you say ridiculous things isn't so fun when you see everyone in the presidential administration doing it. People who didn't get the original joke took the bait and ran with it.
- tgv 10mo agoI agree. Von Däniken instilled a lot of bad ideas in people's minds. People like to complain about religion, but at least that brings some ethos. Von Däniken's ideas did nothing except create a rift with science.
- ZebraOtoko 10mo ago>People like to complain about religion, but at least that brings some ethos. It does? In America at least, the dominant religion seems to be teaching a really terrible and harmful ethos. I don't see how Von Däniken's ideas could possibly be worse.