@greeen Conspiracy theories don't need to make sense, as they are usually based in preexisting prejudice and emotional conviction. They are often completely baseless but excepted anyway (if there's no proof or it's illogical, they'll assert there's a cover-up, making the believers accept it in more).
@gilad73 @greeen@sfba.social I think most conspiracy theories start with a grain of truth and mainstream prejudices/assumptions. Dismantling them -- or at least combating their propaganda -- is not as simple as saying "bah, what BS!". For instance, the idea that evil spirits are misleading people makes it very easy to believe in absurd conspiracy theories (since the evil spirits do all the hard work of coordinating everyone) -- yet this idea is pretty widespread, even among harmless people. Writing off the conspiracy theory as 'completely baseless' is pretty close to writing off humanity as 'hopelessly irrational and violent'.
