Oof this title. But I'll be listening.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/start-with-a-lie/679625/
cc @InUnfunky
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“This wasn’t like, I don’t know, the Kennedy assassination, where people try to find the truth out. Here, people I met who signed up to the birther conspiracy didn’t care about evidence. They said things I heard in Russia when it was fading into dictatorship. They would say, I don’t know. The truth is unknowable. There are no such things as real facts or even evidence. But what did matter was how you signaled your political affiliation by making a conspiratorial statement.”
It’s a religion, a belief system (as opposed to honest inquiry and critical assessment)…a cult.
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