Carl in Michigan
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Hamas never invaded Israel? Innocent civilians weren't murdered in their own homes?A Guide to False Flag Operations
False flag operations are tradecraft operations with the intended goal of pinning responsibility for an act on a separate actor than onesel...greydynamics.com
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Some of you keep trying to derail threads on this topic. Some of you give Hamas a pass and look for opportunities to discredit Israel.
Some of you are being manipulated and you think the rest of us are
Experiments have revealed that feelings of anxiety make people think more conspiratorially. Such feelings, along with a sense of disenfranchisement, currently grip many Americans, according to surveys. In such situations, a conspiracy theory can provide comfort by identifying a convenient scapegoat and thereby making the world seem more straightforward and controllable. “People can assume that if these bad guys weren’t there, then everything would be fine,” Lewandowsky says. “Whereas if you don’t believe in a conspiracy theory, then you just have to say terrible things happen randomly.”
People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features
Baseless theories threaten our safety and democracy. It turns out that specific emotions make people prone to such thinking
www.scientificamerican.com
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