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DetlefK

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5. To understand the article above:

Reply to hueymahl (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2018, 10:17 AM

May 2018

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/12315978

Psychologists have found two motivators for believing in conspiracy-theories:
* If you are powerless, imagining an evil conspiracy gives you the illusion that you could do something about it.
* Various psychological trials have revealed that people more readily believe a statement if believing it paints them as unique freethinkers.

iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades

That's just people declaring themselves edgy.

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Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web [View all] hueymahl May 2018 OP

Author: right wing propagandist Bari Weiss!! sharedvalues May 2018 #1

We were framing our responses at the same time JustAnotherGen May 2018 #4

Nice sharedvalues May 2018 #18

Twitter is tearing this up. WhiskeyGrinder May 2018 #2

Read it this am JustAnotherGen May 2018 #3

Ha nice. And today, liberals are the advanced group sharedvalues May 2018 #19

To understand the article above: DetlefK May 2018 #5

More White men fearing that their dominance in the world is slipping Yavin4 May 2018 #6

Lipsters. Solly Mack May 2018 #7

Anything getting written up in the New York Times can not possibly be the dark web. NT enough May 2018 #8

So...they're alt-right Tarc May 2018 #9

Right wing hooey tenderfoot May 2018 #10

Dave "Fucking" Rubin a comedian??... That's a stretch. nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2018 #11

tldr; racists and incels. n/t Orsino May 2018 #12

That article is bullshit blogslut May 2018 #13

Bari Weiss was on JoeScar this morning SharonClark May 2018 #14

For those who don't know who Bari Weiss is, this article serves as a good introduction kcr May 2018 #15

I never heard of them Blue_Tires May 2018 #16

Isn't this just the old "Know-Nothing" movement, dressed up in new bullwinkle428 May 2018 #17