The conspiracy is to talk about flat earthers to discredit conspiracy theories in general while there are conspiracies to undermine democratic processes.
How many are there? 20? Why talk about them?
Meanwhile Project 2025 was a conspiracy, even out in the open. Who has talked about it before it became reality? Too few!
What are the new things that we should talk about but don’t?
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It takes a third brain cell to realise that it’s not worth trying to change their mind
Quexotic@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Truth. I’ve already see Artemis truther videos with what looks like an AI gen inflatable Artemis rocket.
At leasst it wasn’t in my feed.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 day ago
Conspiracies can only be debunked by showing the believers facts that impose them. Facts, not arguments.
That makes it hard in some cases because they might be so far gone that you have to prove that simple statistical math operations are not dreamt up.
Anyways, the easy things we can do we should do to change their minds.
Example: in Germany we have glas recycling and it is sorted by green, white and brown in three different containers on the side of the street. When the truck comes it picks up each container and dumps it into the back by holding it with a crane over the trailer. Some person without any imagination thought recycling must be a lie because they dump it all in the same truck. It never occured to him that there are compartments on the trailer. But now he is a gonner, he saw the light and everything he always suspected becomes true as well. Drag that idiot on the ladder of the trailer and show them.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If only it was that easy…