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  • Again there are real world gatherings of conspiracy thinkers or people within a specific conspiracy community like MUFON. There is no skeptic convention that carries the same sense of togetherness. There is no community of anti-conspiracy theorists that grants a sense of belonging to something bigger whoch is one of the traditional appeals of conspiracy theorist groups.

    Im stopping here. I can only spend so much time repeatedly pointing out that your position is non-factual. If you can’t tell the difference between a formal organization with a membership list and an internet forum I can’t help you.




  • Ok? You’re still demonstrating conspiracy theorists have a community while those who oppose them aren’t members of a specific community.

    Again websites, internet forums, and subreddits are not real communities. No one is self identifying as a person that opposes conspiracy theories whereas flat earthers are prominent enough that I don’t have to explain what the flat earther community is.

    Conspiracy theorist communities offer a sense of larger belonging that opposition to conspiracy theories does not provide. They are incredibly different in that regard


  • And Im saying that’s wrong because I can find IRL meet ups all over the world for people in a conspiratorial subset. Becoming a flatearther or antivaxxer is like becoming a Roman Catholic in the sense that there is a real world community of people who gather together to celebrate and share these ideas. The anti-conspiracy people do not have this. If you don’t buy into conspiracy theories there isn’t a convention for you, there aren’t gatherings of people to debunk the conspiracies that no one attending believes in.

    When I say there’s a community of conspiracy theorists Im talking about an actual community not a fucking subreddit as subreddit are not real communities.






  • Go back to the furst comment of yours that I replied to. You claim there’s a community of anti-conspiracy people and what Im suggesting is that the conspiracy thinkers are a ral community. If you buy into flat earth there are conventions to go to, merch to buy and shows to listen/watch that are all part of the flat earth community.

    Skeptics don’t have that in the same way. My unwillingness to accept Bigfoot isn’t because im searching to belong but the Bigfoot hunter might be.