I honestly don't understand how anyone reaches 2022, given all that we've experienced in the past several years, with enough faith in journalism remaining intact to pay any credence to "X happened, but we won't show you any evidence. Trust us."
For me, such a story is totally meaningless. It conveys no information about reality either way. The chances of truth or falsehood are exactly equal.
We have different epistemologies.
> from other pedophiles because its not some hivemind
Did you think critically about this? If so, for how long?
How are the pedophiles teaching the sooper-seekrit hashtags to each other? Is in the manual "So You've Decided to Become a Pedophile" that they send to new members of the vast conspiracy?
The problem with these conspiracy theories is that any inspection of how they might actually operate, day to day in the real world, is always neglected and handwaved away.
The whole point of a hashtag is that they spread virally, or are obvious terms. The very idea of a secret hashtag is an oxymoron.
For me, such a story is totally meaningless. It conveys no information about reality either way. The chances of truth or falsehood are exactly equal.
We have different epistemologies.
> from other pedophiles because its not some hivemind
Did you think critically about this? If so, for how long?
How are the pedophiles teaching the sooper-seekrit hashtags to each other? Is in the manual "So You've Decided to Become a Pedophile" that they send to new members of the vast conspiracy?
The problem with these conspiracy theories is that any inspection of how they might actually operate, day to day in the real world, is always neglected and handwaved away.
The whole point of a hashtag is that they spread virally, or are obvious terms. The very idea of a secret hashtag is an oxymoron.