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Maui truthers using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence (arstechnica.com)
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I don't like that the original headline was "are so dumb". Conspiracy believers aren't dumb, they are failing at trying to make sense of a frightening event based on the bad information they've been given by their preferred social circle that feeds a messed-up worldview.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well it could be reworded as “believe outrageous claims based on a single photo”, but that can be reduced to “are so dumb”.