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You sound perhaps a little naive.

From a European's perspective, we have times where everything is going very much to the left, so naturally the right wing will grow. There will be a balance, but more and more I see that what is called the right wing is the former centrism. That kind of right wing has to emerge for there to be a balance. And it is to the benefit of those who try to divide groups into smaller ones. I don't know which conspiracy theories you are talking about, but I myself watch with interest how efficiently they introduce some of them, in various ways.

What you are describing ("demonstrating intelligence") is low self-esteem & narcissism. Howling ego in space, as a counterbalance to an understated self-esteem. And it is more common on the left. Where there are the most parasites. On the principle of playing the victim, simply, so give me something, because I deserve it. All those amulets, prepositions. The left is more prone to creating its own false world, rather than aligning itself with the real one. And this is something you can act on and make money from. They have a hard life with themselves anyway, and to others they are just emotional vampires.

When someone is intelligent, they don't f around with things that you can see they're tryharding for. Because it is not intelligent. Truly intelligent people have no need to prove their intelligence to others, they even often don't want to. They are lazy and they know they are intelligent, so they won't waste their energy explaining things to people who can't see. They know they are right and they pathetically observe the downside of commenting on controversial topics.

All in all, from the perspective from a centrist in Europe, I think it's very good that such currents are appearing on the site and do what you want with it. Because an intelligent person will rarely want to explain to moron that he is a moron, therefore he should not vote because he will harm us all. Unless he sees the potential, which is again - quite naive.




You think it's good that nonsensical bigoted conspiracy theories have a foothold here? Why?




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