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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not at all surprised that the worst offender was a 53 year old woman. Everyone always assumes the most unhinged posters are teens or maybe early 20s at most. But I’ve found that the ones who go really, REALLY hard about stuff are always older. The people who really believed that Harry Styles and that other dude also in One Direction were in a relationship … the people really invested in if Beyonce was ever actually pregnant … the Meghan Markle people … a very significant portion of them are 35+ if not 50+. This is the same situation as the QAnon true believers, Sandy Hook “truthers” and other conspiracies, but just with relatively lower stakes stuff.

I believe Slate (maybe?) had an article a few years back about Sandy Hook denialists and there was literally no way to change their minds. They were so deep into the conspiracy that it was now a part of their identity. They thought they had uncovered the truth and that they did their own research and found a different (and obviously wrong) conclusion. Sincerely believing that it didn’t happen is a huge boost to their ego, to the point that the conspiracy itself is a deep part of their “self.” A person letting go of the conspiracy at this point in time would also be letting go of over 10 years(!) of their lives that they devoted to “researching” Sandy Hook and there is just no way those people could go through that. They’re in too deep now. [/quote]

Agree.

What is insane (literally) is that if you go to the NYT comments, one of these lunatics is there [i]still[/i] claiming that she is lying. That’s a poster with either a severe intellectual disability or severe mental illness or both. It is insane. [/quote]

They can’t comprehend that they were wrong. They LITERALLY cannot - it’s mentally impossible for them. They’re too deep into the delusion and giving it up would be mentally painful. It’s sad. Like being in a cult. [/quote]

It is really disturbing. [/quote]

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