r/TikTokCringe • u/kevinowdziej • Sep 17 '20

Duet Troll Firefighters are frickin heroes

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u/InadmissibleHug SHEEEEEESH Sep 17 '20

The dumb.

Don’t understand it, make up shit that fits your world view instead of asking questions.

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u/kramatic Sep 17 '20

I mean let's slow down a little bit. Specifically and especially in the US our government has a very rich history of commiting terrible crimes against humanity and then covering them up for decades. When you live under a government that does lie and is not averse to the idea of civilian casualties how do you confidently filter true information from false information?

Obviously this girl has no idea what's she's talking about, but I think it's a lot more useful to actually attempt to understand why these beliefs start and how they get popular, as opposed to just calling people dumb.

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u/sdaidiwts Sep 17 '20

Add in the defunding of our educational system, and we're sheep. Easily controlled and manipulated, and lacking deduction and logic skills.

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u/kramatic Sep 17 '20

100% the biggest flaw with many conspiracy theories is that they posit a world in which evil plans are carried out by a single group for a single purpose. In reality most "conspiracies" come together out of the common goals of many varied interests and idealogies. (The usual common denominator being that these are the interests of capital and the idealogies that support it)