Standard conversation with a cultist, after the words "fake news". "How do you KNOW it's fake news?

[niyad]

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Who told you? What evidence?" When the usual sources are cited, "How do you know they are telling the truth? On what evidence? Show me". Tends to be a very short conversation at that point.

[ck4829]

1. I'm thinking if I see it on Twitter, I'm going to reply with "Evidence: #DudeTrustMe"

I think it has a lot of potential for "fake news" and other things as well.

[niyad]

3. I get the urge to shake them in hopes that their two remaining brain cells will arc.

[yonder]

12. Well.....well that may just create a thought.

Could it actually happen? Nah.

[niyad]

13. I do refrain from such pointless effort. I might break a nail.

[LunaSea]

2. That's when they get mad.

And walk away.
They have nothing but a strong desire to believe whatever reinforces what they already believe.

[niyad]

10. So true. It does keep the conversation short.

[Grokenstein]

4. "How do you know the Big Bang is real? Were you there?"

Response: "Were you there when the giant magical sky-elf just said 'whammo!' and the universe suddenly existed?"
Response: "..........Fuck you, I have faith. That IS proof! You're just wrong!"
(that night a brick breaks your living room window)

[niyad]

6. Was I there at the Big Bang? Yes.

[Grokenstein]

8. They can't prove otherwise!

[niyad]

9. This is very true!

[blm]

11. Were you there when they crucified Jack Lord?

[niyad]

14. Sorry, missed that one. Think I was on Antares.

[blm]

15. Here ya go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=273&v=l4HS2cJHVlg&feature=emb_logo

[niyad]

18. Acid? Peyote? Funny mushrooms?

[Grokenstein]

20. Ha ha! That's almost as effed-up as "International Gorillay"

(that infamous WTF Pakistan non-movie in which "evil" Salman Rushdie is electrocuted and burned by a self-cloning flying Koran)

[Thomas Hurt]

5. they are magical thinkers, it is true because they say it is.

[niyad]

7. They get really annoyed when you point this out.

[Hassler]

16. I don't talk to delusional people, beyond saying, Excuse me as I walk past.

[niyad]

17. I regard them as human scratching posts.

[Firestorm49]

19. In my neighborhood, they would throw it right back at you. Same format.

[niyad]

21. Good for them for figuring that out. As I told one, I've been doing this for nearly sixty years. I

know who and what proves out.