On: Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families

[yakshaving_jgt]

> the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

What truth did Jones speak?

[guywithahat → yakshaving_jgt]

The full quote is

> This will only send the signal to millions of people, that the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

I don't think OP is arguing Alex Jones spoke any truths per say, he's arguing that's how it'll be interpreted by his supporters.

[yakshaving_jgt → guywithahat]

Genuinely, do you have an idea how to correct people who are convinced that down is up?

[saalweachter → yakshaving_jgt]

So most people I know who do a dramatic 180 hit a breaking point.

For all that the inaccurate "boiling a frog" metaphor describes how things work fairly well, a lot of people hit a wall at some point -- for instance, when "those people are bad" becomes "your best friend Joe is bad" -- and rebound. Once they hit that breaking point, the scales have fallen, and they begin re-examining everything.

This happens both with people raised in a particular worldview, as they gain experiences outside their original upbringing, and to people who fall into a cult, as the cult gradually ratchets up the craziness.

Of course, not everyone ever finds such a breaking point, and trying to push someone to find a lever to crack open their worldview antagonistically usually just makes someone double down, but a lot of people do find their way out.