Conspiracy theorist epistemology -
I think the thing is with conspiracies theorists is if they fall far enough down the rabbit hole, it is almost as if they grow an aversion to truth.

They will simply believe whatever is false, in fact the more false something is the more likely it is to be believed. It is almost this absurd line of reasoning like "why are they going out of their way to prove that this is true? It must be really important that that they hide this from the people".

I think this comes from the fact they gain a sense of superiority from believing what normal people would never believe.

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@Trillenial Yeah, that's why they're so susceptible to propaganda. Willing to believe anything as long as it's framed as something secret

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