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  • @joeae

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2023/aug/18/the-wellness-to-conspiracy-pipeline-podcast

    I shall listen to this, the title seems relevant to a (mindset coach) family member who recently totally straight faced said at the dinner table, “Alex Jones makes some very good points”,

    Mother: “ooh yes I love her on the One Show too”
    gf: “is that the bassist from Blur?”

    I chose not to respond, but part of me wants to discuss this with him, but part of me also knows exactly how the conversation will play out.

    take hold easier when distrust already exists.

    I reckon this is a big factor. And rightly or wrongly there is a lot of that today.

  • Perhaps they can elucidate what points Alex Jones is right about.

    They have heard of the saying that a broken clock is right twice a day? ;)

    Seen that with the pandemic, I ended up talking to somebody who with a straight face told me Soros was behind it with Gates and Bezos (husband and I...omfg) and while part of was thinking "ah people over 60 are more likely to believing everything on the internet" I had to agree they were right old people were left to die.

    So those groups go "look they don't care about you" (part factual, part emotional) and "some of these decisions are maybe stupid" (part factual, part emotional) and next thing you know... the virus came from a China lab and vaccines don't work. (ok now the facts are gone...)

    Well, I know who I won't be in close vicinity of next pandemic...but it's sad to see genuine concerns and being a bit gullible get twisted into this.

    But we couldn't really get through, I did say to her "yes about old people I think they didn't try enough for sure" but that we did get vaccinated due to the risk of long covid. The rest,what do you even say to that? :)

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