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tubthumper@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThanks, man. Been having a shit week. Literally just noticed this standalone app today. Have actually had problems with paranoia before. Though it should go without saying to anyone that my second paragraph has an obvious /s attached it.
But again, thanks so much for telling me I’m embarrassing and I don’t want to learn anything, even if I posted this on a literal no stupid questions page, with an open ended question, akin to “does anybody else…?”
Yeah, okay. I do want to learn.
I especially want to learn to make sure I never explain anything to anyone like you just did to me.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The problem is, and the reason I got this angry, is that when you discovered something you didn’t understand, instead of actually trying to learn, you created a narrative, devised the idea, and started this conspiratorial stuff, spreading it to a bunch of gullible idiots. And when you got feedback on that, you got defensive, and now it’s apparently my job to explain you everything, and you’re absolved of everything.
That’s exactly how conspiracy theories start and propagate. That’s exactly the mindset that is so dangerous and so deadly.
I’m not gonna explain you why you’re wrong, because I want you to learn how to look for the information on the internet, and I want you (and everyone really) to maybe get into a habit of searching for the info on stuff you don’t know, before formulating theories.