Are you attracted to smart people or do you see them as geeky? I love smart men but they aren't attracted to me. I guess my IQ is too low for them🫤

@NerdyPotato with how that term works, a conspiracy to one person is a fact to another person and vice versa

@pianoplayingsteve not really. If you have loads of documents to back up your claims, it's fact. If you don't get any further than "look it up yourself" and nothing shows up when people do, it's conspiracy, no matter how strong one's believe in it is.

@NerdyPotato i dont know about that. If i give someone a single fact that goes against a narrative they have they will give it an ironic chuckle and joke about it. But then when i provide a large series of facts proving my case, the unsettling feel of cognitive dissonence hits them, of which society has trained them to react 'conspiracy theorist!'

'If you don't get any further than "look it up yourself"' then youve not seen my posts, i source everything i claim. But the better the case you make the quicker you are called a conspiracy theorist. As people would rather hold onto what they think they are meant to believe in and what theyve emotionally invested in, over whats factually true. I can give many examples of that over a wide range of areas. And having some derogative claim to use to feel better about that cognitive dissonence is an appealing idea.

@pianoplayingsteve you may not be able to convince someone whether something is or isn't a conspiracy theory, but most of them are easily disproven, or at least their "evidence" is easily broken down.

@NerdyPotato I don’t think so. How would you even know that theories I have in mind are ‘easily broken down’ when you don’t even know what they are?

@pianoplayingsteve I was speaking in general about theories that have been broken down and are still believed widely, like staging the moon landing and overreaction to the Covid pandemic.

@NerdyPotato there are many different criticisms to the many different aspects of how covid was handled, which differed by country. In the Middle Eastern country I’m in, they were dead strict with people wearing masks whilst driving on their own in a car, but then they’d go to a restaurant and all eat soup putting their spoons into the same communal bowl and eating from said spoon. I pointed out that this was ridiculous and I was met with a reaction similar to ‘you conspiracy theorist!’

@pianoplayingsteve a great example of how people can be hard to convince, but where you were objectively correct.