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by pjc50 428 days ago
Perhaps the average one does, but some get sucked in, and if there's no Nazi factory where are all the nazis coming from?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx4wlynjw5o

How many mass shooters had obvious 4chan radicalization roots? Christchurch definitely.

> everything you read online is false

In its own way, this is also poisonous. It enables holocaust denialists and anti-vaxxers: after all, vaccines and holocaust memorials are on the mainstream internet, so they must be false, right?

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Next you will be asking for trump to ban rap music to stop drug trafficking
A healthy skepticism is good.

Have you gone on social media recently? It is like 90% nonfactual weirdness. Even here on hackers news its tons of mutually exclusive unfalsifiable assertions of perspective, not fact.

I dont know about your family, but mine is pretty religious. Listening to their conversation during thanksgiving gives me about a 90% nonfact rate.

I think humans are just are not beings of fact in general.