>>11917626>why are so many people against wearing masks?/pol/tard conspiracy theory idiocy, which a high percentage of the country is infected with. They're the same people who think Bill Gates is trying to enslave everyone with vaccines, and mostly the same people who think Sandy Hook was a hoax to seize guns, that 9/11 was an inside job to invade the Middle East, that the government puts fluoride in the water to make people dumber.
Take an unusual situation. Ask "what is the most malevolent possible explanation for this?" Come up with one, attribute it to the government and/or billionaire bogeymen (Soros, Gates), then do that for everything else in the world you're concerned about, despite zero evidence.
Meanwhile, dismiss actual conspiracies with substantiated evidence if they come into conflict with any of those beliefs, and promote substantiated conspiracies that complement the beliefs to some degree as solid proof that the larger system of beliefs is true. (e.g. "Jeffrey Epstein trafficked child prostitutes, therefore Pizzagate and QAnon are real and all/most Democratic leaders rape children in Satanic rituals and murder people like Seth Rich and Jews control the world.")
Probably half the people reading this literally believe all of those things, which is why this board is so terrible.
