I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole after reading the comments on an online video of the dreadful ship accident in Baltimore.
Thousands of comments and the vast majority believe that this wasn't an accident but a deliberate act to destroy the infrastructure and economy of one of the USAs biggest ports.
Los of comments about the black smoke showing that the ship had explosives. Even when the odd sane person chips in to explain that was almost certainly due to the ship being put in hard reverse to try not to hit the bridge. Other people claiming that they've slowed down the video and it shows explosives on the bridge, even though these are clearly powerlines with electricity arcing as the bridge collapses.
And then lots of people commenting that they need Trump back in power because Biden is too feeble/?senile/left wing to realise that America is under attack.
I appreciate that most of the comments were from Americans, but I suspect the same thing might be true here. They all seem to be buying into a conspiracy with no acknowledgement that, sometimes, dreadful accidents do happen.
AIBU?
to think that far more people than we realise subscribe to conspiracy theories?
EmmaGrundyForPM · 28/03/2024 16:59
Am I being unreasonable?
77 votes. Final results.
POLLEmmaGrundyForPM · 28/03/2024 17:06
I think it was the ratios that surprised me. I expected the odd conspiracy-theory comments amid lots of sane ones, but at least 9 out of 10 comments were along the lines of it being deliberate terrorism.
EmmaGrundyForPM · 28/03/2024 17:18
@BloodyHellKenAgain but I wasn't looking for conspiracy theories. A video of the incident popped up on my FB feed, and I could see there were 3000+ comments. I was intrigued by the number as I couldn't see what anyone would have to say apart from."how sad". And there they all were
Abhannmor · 28/03/2024 17:23
Thanks for the synopsis @Hagpie ! Sounds about right. I'm awaiting an update from a family member who is practically living on YouTube now. Partly my fault as I recommended Dr John Campbell to him during Covid lockdown.
Though , in my defence , Dr Death seemed quite sane back then. But now its all Russell Brand , Joe Rogan et al.
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