Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906)" video.

@thomash8079 You should be SKEPTICAL, not conspiratorial. A skeptical mindset not only affects your government, but everything else. Conspiratorial people tend to blindly trust anything that confirms their biases. It's why so many Covid deniers went straight to supporting Russia in this recent war -because their same sources did the same.
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Neither has the far-left, apparently.
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@thomash8079 "Don't support the government" by right-wingers is just as braindead as automatically supporting it. It leads to an conspiratorial mindset that literally makes them contrarian to any group or even foreign government that goes against their own government.
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@thomash8079 Never said they were, I said that "so many" do it because it's a very noticeable trend. I quite literally see it on every Covid-denier's feed on Twitter and Facebook. Conspiratorial people are literal sheep in that way. They are as bad as people that blindly trust a government.
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@thomash8079 And who do these people turn to? People who align with this "mainstream bad" narrative. Every single conspiratorial person I have ever met have gone full "Russia killing nazis and destroying US pigeon bioweapons" schizo. Being a contrarian by default is literal sheep behavior. It follows a different narrative purely because its against another narrative. And often latches onto the shephard that leads that narrative. And who says being a minority opinion isn't being a sheep? A sheep just needs to follow blindly. You don't need to be the majority to be a sheep at all.
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Trumpist political power is been basically neutered, if that's what you're implying. So has BLM political groups if you count them, but I'm not entirely sure.
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@Noctem_pasa Gotta love braindead cynical takes that still gets upvotes because "edgy"
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@tavenstrickert9658 Why is it telling or disappointing? People like to ruffle each other's feathers by default, and the anonymity of the internet makes that easy. Anti-semitism is an issue, but comparatively is a blip on the radar in a place like the US, especially in contrast to other issues of bigotry. Seriously, I looked at your list of "problems" and I felt my eyes roll to the back of my skull. The only real problematic thing was the Kanye thing, which was gross as hell -but he was so thoroughly kicked outside of the mainstream opinion that it was barely worth anything.
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