Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "We interviewed Trump supporters at his arrest, went HORRIBLY WRONG" video.

@JeffPutnam-i1v Exactly! Thank you for illustrating my example from earlier in the thread. I wrote: "Our product is superior to the competition. But since they have no policies, they have to result to demonizing their competition." And then you gave an example. Brilliant!
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It's an old advertising/sales trick: Our product is superior to the competition. But since they have no policies, they have to result to demonizing their competition. But their rhetoric led to January 6th, and who knows what all. They have convinced their customers of a completely separate reality.
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@drugmoney4996 "Which conspiracy theories are you talking about?" The ones they talked about in the video....
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@sentientfetus3894 "But you cheated on Paper so you created a loop hole" This is a paraphrase of what Trump claimed: Because the Dems treated him unfairly, and caused so much of his 1st (and only) term to be wasted, then he deserves the extra time to make up for what he wanted to do.
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@LittleBitofHopeToo2518 It's a youtube algorithm. That's why it sometimes doesn't make sense. It tries to target and delete posts that use what could be called negative, insulting, conspiratorial, or hate speech. So the word you tried to use could be seen as an insult by the program.
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@devichayut44 I know. It's absurd. :)
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@a5cent The U.S. used to have a government program that studied propaganda. But it was shut down in 1947. So it used to be people's job to point out propaganda. But no more.
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@LittleBitofHopeToo2518 "So their AI is pretty shabby." Yes it is.
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@a5cent "Well, "pointing out propaganda" by itself won't do anything." Yes. Not really sure what I'm suggesting, if anything. I agree that government squashing propaganda would be problematic, since the criteria for what is and isn't propaganda would have to be decided; that criteria could also change, to the point of using the enterprise to suppress free speech. My point, if anything, was that our government used to study propaganda, during the height of WWII. But it doesn't do it anymore--for whatever that is worth.
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@a5cent This made my day: "steaming doohicky." We're in a real fix. It's really hard to figure out what all would lead to substituting belief for knowledge. There could be all kinds of reasons: PTSD from who knows what all, low self esteem from who knows what all, or just an unwillingness to learn--again from who knows what reasons. Every possibility has countless, often different sources. And we'd have to identify the source of the malfunction, to fix it. Plus, once propaganda takes root, it's very hard to reverse. As difficult as that process sounds, imagine trying to do it to 70+ million people. And there's another possible reason: They want to substitute belief for knowledge. It's deliberate on their part. Who knows for what all reasons? There are people who prefer bogus revelations to facts. When I was a kid, I believed in Bigfoot. One of the biggest disappointments to me, now that I'm middle-aged, is that Bigfoot was never found and proven to be true! Ye gods, what kind of boring reality, when there's no Bigfoot?! haha. The difference, of course, is that I don't still believe in it.
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@JeffPutnam-i1v "maybe try reading it slower?" Okay. "Sounds...like...a... page...out...of...the... demonrat...playbook." So...maybe you're...agreeing with me? And just not at all alluding to that fact? Hard to tell. I can only go off what you wrote there, which isn't much. I'd scrolled up, to see your other comment: "How that Russia hoax turn out? Lmao!" Again, I can't see if you're saying there was no hoax, or if it was. Maybe you need to write slower, so you actually say what you're trying to communicate.
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@ambushpredator7629 "Both parties are to blame" There's no such thing as both parties anymore. That ended on January 6th. Using that cliche (both parties) is, at best, a Republican's admission of guilt--while trying to deflect. Or, at worst, it's a false equivalence. Republicans have convinced their base of an alternate reality: complete with deep state, Fauci being out to get them, Biden being a modern Vito Corleone, and Trump as the most persecuted person who ever lived--even though it was a perfect phone call. There are no Dem equivalents to this.
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@MichaelJohnson-dt8tv "“Demonrat”? “Russia Hoax”? He’s probably got a litany of such clever witticisms that he recite. I bet that dude is the pride of his Klavern." Haha! Yes. Agreed. :)
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@drugmoney4996 "Do you think all "conspiracy theories" are false" Of course not. A conspiracy is when 2 or more people get together in secret, and plan something in secret. So that certainly happens. But that's not a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory is when some yahoo doesn't know, and is completely unable to know, what the richest, most powerful people in the world are up to. Yet they claim they do know. "Shouldn't people investigate and research, to determine if something is factual, or not?" Knock yourself out. I was into conspiracy theories in my early 20s. It was great fun. Then I realized that a know-nothing bozo like me couldn't possibly know what the elites are up to. And, if I did, then I couldn't do anything about it. So it was a complete waste of time. You want to investigate and learn something: try science. Then you'll actually learn something that's true. Learn what a quark is, or a quasar; learn a foreign language, or a musical instrument. Then you'll have something to show for your time.
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@a5cent "i do wonder if we understand why people believe the insane things they do." My off-the-cuff response would be: because they're insane. :) But seriously, belief fills in the gaps where knowledge should be. They don't know, so they believe.
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@a5cent "Makes for boring conversation ;-)" Definitely makes for a very different, but welcome, and enjoyable conversation. Thank you. P.S., Bigfoot Lives! :)
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