Or in my favoured example, when yr campaigning to stop the bombing of civilians, and become emotionally involved to the extent of watching rescue footage and dreaming about it - conspiracies claiming that these bombings and gassing aren't happening are hugely upsettingSame is true of conspiracy theories. It’s all just mildly irritating until someone shows up with a gun at a pizza restaurant.
It's not odd she's a green *at all* - they lap this stuff up. Think of the Unabomber. Can all get v "modernity is a trap"/back to the land in an instant.well, in a way, it's probably highly enjoyable for her, plunging into this conspiracy netherworld. makes life more exciting. exercises the brain. the world seems stranger, more interesting.
unless she's really anxious all the time about dark malevolent forces.
what's odd is that she's a passionate Green who can literally weep about the state of the environment and too much car use - so why would she care if fracking-mad, open-up-the-Arctic-for-drillling, climate-crisis-denying Trump got cheated out of an election?
But the bastard went ahead and bombed it anyway!I tried to talk Craner out of bombing Iraq but in retrospect it wasn't worth it
When it gets past the fervour tipping point the worst part is seeing them alienate themselves further because of the ranting and difficulty having any kind of enjoyable interaction without spinning off into babble
Ha, unlike you, the seriousest man alive. With important opinions on a range of current topics.That's not a serious question and you aren't a serious person.
Now THAT is what I call an anecdote!Something similar between going conspiracy-bonkers and other ways of going bonkers. my next-door neighbor growing up was a reasonable guy, until one day he told his wife he planned to take a second wife in Uganda. She obviously divorced him, she kept the house, he went to Uganda and presumably learned that the second-wife in question was a scammer who needed assistance in paying school fees… maybe believing that the chemtrails are making the frogs gay is just a more controlled way to go through the same emotional process.