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minus-square[email protected]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·6 months agoAh, this will assuredly convince the conspiracy crowd to cease trusting grifters with their time, money, and mind space. …Right?
minus-squareoctopus_ink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-26 months ago Ah, this will assuredly convince the conspiracy crowd to cease trusting grifters with their time, money, and mind space. …Right? You would think, but… Trump campaign says it raised $52.8 million after guilty verdict in fundraising blitz
minus-square[email protected]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoI’m starting to think these conspiracy theorists aren’t quite as clairvoyant as they say they are.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI’m wondering if this is a measurable case (in actual dollars) of the backfire effect: https://effectiviology.com/backfire-effect-facts-dont-change-minds/ In other words, these people have learned that their golden emperor-king is, in fact, a felon. This is then filtered through their extreme biases and then out pops: “I must help fund him”.
minus-squareoctopus_ink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoSeems reasonable to me, actually, but it sort of brings a sense of doom to think we (humanity) or eve just they (magas) are that far gone.
Ah, this will assuredly convince the conspiracy crowd to cease trusting grifters with their time, money, and mind space. …Right?
You would think, but… Trump campaign says it raised $52.8 million after guilty verdict in fundraising blitz
I’m starting to think these conspiracy theorists aren’t quite as clairvoyant as they say they are.
I’m wondering if this is a measurable case (in actual dollars) of the backfire effect:
https://effectiviology.com/backfire-effect-facts-dont-change-minds/
In other words, these people have learned that their golden emperor-king is, in fact, a felon. This is then filtered through their extreme biases and then out pops: “I must help fund him”.
Seems reasonable to me, actually, but it sort of brings a sense of doom to think we (humanity) or eve just they (magas) are that far gone.