I don’t watch mainstream news. I don’t know anyone under 40yrs old that watches mainstream news. This is why a bunch of tech-illiterate boomers got manipulated by an online message board.
All of your answers would take time to unpack, so I’m just going to focus on one thing for now.
Q asks us to specifically do research like looking up old newspapers and doing our own thinking.
Research does not mean finding information that you agree with and drawing red lines between them. Research means finding contradictory sources (sources you agree with AND sources that oppose your views), and then using additional evidence to deduce which source of information is the most accurate.
This is why I mocked “do your own research,” because it’s not research when you’re simply confirming your own biases. Actually doing research would involve looking at both Q drops and MSM, and then providing additional evidence to both sources and trying to deduce which seems the most correct.
Why do you trust a random internet person (Q) that posted on an anonymous message board?
This may seem like a silly question, but as someone that grew up on the internet, it was always common knowledge that every message board / chat room was full of trolls, liars, bad faith actors, sociopaths, and master manipulators.
Remember the saying, “never trust anything you read on the internet”? It’s because the internet is full of bullshit artists.
Q is literally asking us to stop taking the world at face value and figure it ourselves.
This is not new information though, the whole idea of questioning authority and questioning the world around you has been taught in schools for decades. I learned these ideas during my freshman year of college.
So now I will ask again, why do you trust a random internet person that posted on an anonymous message board?
I don’t watch mainstream news. I don’t know anyone under 40yrs old that watches mainstream news. This is why a bunch of tech-illiterate boomers got manipulated by an online message board.
All of your answers would take time to unpack, so I’m just going to focus on one thing for now.
Research does not mean finding information that you agree with and drawing red lines between them. Research means finding contradictory sources (sources you agree with AND sources that oppose your views), and then using additional evidence to deduce which source of information is the most accurate.
This is why I mocked “do your own research,” because it’s not research when you’re simply confirming your own biases. Actually doing research would involve looking at both Q drops and MSM, and then providing additional evidence to both sources and trying to deduce which seems the most correct.
OK here’s a basic question:
Why do you trust a random internet person (Q) that posted on an anonymous message board?
This may seem like a silly question, but as someone that grew up on the internet, it was always common knowledge that every message board / chat room was full of trolls, liars, bad faith actors, sociopaths, and master manipulators. Remember the saying, “never trust anything you read on the internet”? It’s because the internet is full of bullshit artists.
This is not new information though, the whole idea of questioning authority and questioning the world around you has been taught in schools for decades. I learned these ideas during my freshman year of college.
So now I will ask again, why do you trust a random internet person that posted on an anonymous message board?