Hey friends! Just a quick reminder on critical thinking coming in!
If you watch a video on an Australian bushfire and someone claims it was arson and when you ask "is this true", their response is "yes there are court cases in New Mexico and California", which are separated from Australia by the entirety of the Pacific hecking Ocean
if that happens, something doesn't check out
If you ask again for confirmation and their source is a screenshot of google(!) where the first link says in the preview(!!) that it's just citing a random senator(!!!) and the other three links don't say anything at all(!!1!)
if that happens, something doesn't check out
If you then go to the wildfire's Wikipedia page and it has an entire section on misinformation that says that far-right trolls and bots spread the lie that arson is the main cause of the fires (and not climate change) and if you look up the American wildfires that this other guy was talking about and there is further evidence of misinformation
if that happens, something definitely, absolutely doesn't check out
If then finally (because character evidence should only come at the end, not in the beginning), everyone involved spreads misinformation about Covid vaccines or just straight up the white supremacist conspiracy theory of the great replacement, you know exactly what's going on
This is a tiny shitty blog with like five active followers, but with what little audience I have, I beg you on all fours to please, when you encounter a weird and surprising claim, to stop for a second, to think if it makes sense and fits into your general framework of the world – and if it doesn't, to do the minimal work to search for it on wikipedia or duckduckgo or whatever search engine you use
Trash like this is what has been poisoning society for over two decades now and if we don't all push back against it, it's only gonna get worse from here
