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What makes people predisposed to chase conspiracy fantasies?

We've seen all this shit before.

• Salem Witches
• Commies At The Pentagon
• Poisoned Halloween Candy
• Satanic Panic
• Freed Slaves Are Coming For The White Women
• and and and

The difference now of course, is that mass media isn't a casual gathering down at the town square or a coupla guys printing up pamphlets, or a newspaper or radio or 5 TV channels. The intertoobz gives these manipulative assholes a near-instant global reach, so the damage that a single bullshit story can do is amplified and accelerated so it starts to look like a fusion bomb has gone off in cyberspace.

If the nonsense stays with "I woke up in a bathtub filled with ice and then noticed I was missing a kidney", that's one thing. But when someone with actual real world political power picks up almost any random crap, runs with it, and embellishes it with "stolen election", then it escalates to a whole new level of dangerous shit.

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