Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?

Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why the link to conspiracy theories?

  Why would knowledge of MKUltra or the Iran–Contra turn someone right wing?

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I would imagine it gives you the taste of “everyone is lying to you” and then latch on to… Other people still lying to you, but it’s just randoms online, they’d never lie like govt or the MSM.

    It’s easy to fall into if you don’t have the critical thinking skills to sift through what is/isn’t bullshit.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Other people still lying to you, but it’s just randoms online, they’d never lie like govt or the MSM

      I’m still not getting it. How does this lead to right wing? Why can’t conspiracies lead to left wing support?

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I think it leads people to the fringe in general, I wasn’t making the case for right wing specifically.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve seen more than a few people assert “horseshoe theory” on this subject. Since the Far Left and the Far Right are the same, they turn you right by sending you left.

    Anti-Americanism makes you a Trump supporter or Xi supporter or whatever. And these fucked secret programs from the 60s and 70s make you anti-American. Ergo…

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Bcs before I would see them believing in conspiracy theories most of them where in Instagram

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s been going on long before insta lol

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      • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        yeah like those “free speech” social media

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