A community to discuss the podcast Knowledge Fight and topics of interest to the hosts, Dan and Jordan.
This community is unofficial. Neither Dan nor Jordan currently know about it, and I don't feel like bothering them about it. They do not know me.
Feel free to share your bright spot in the most recent bright spot thread.
Rules: If you are fans of Dan and Jordan, you know the rules already. Keep happy thoughts during our battles against poisonous ideologies.
What is Knowledge Fight? Well, no one can make it sound good. So I'll just make up a story.
What happened January 7, 2011? I don't know, but Dan can tell you. Kinda. You see, sometime in 2017, former stand-up Dan Friesen decided to see what kind of shit Alex Jones was spewing on that day on his InfoWars broadcast. Why that day? Well, it would be just your average day on the Alex Jones show, but average days don't exist there.
Dan crawled through the batshit and presented his findings to his best friend, Jordan Holmes. You can listen to that here.
Or skip that fictional origin story of Episode #75 and just visit knowledgefight.com
Incidentally, that thread in c/politics had another podcast recommendation from [email protected]
I’ll take this opportunity to plug a tiny podcast that I stumbled onto called “Some Dare Call it Conspiracy”. It’s hosted by two English guys that were hard-core conspiracy theorists for 15 years.
Some one also mentioned Behind the Bastards, but I don't think that would need a plug here.
I'll just copy a reply I made there. I'd imagine there are more knowledgeable people here. I'm not really even into qanon stuff.
In the body of the thread a posted on c/knowledgefight, I bring up that I didn’t care about pizzagate because there really no damages. No victims coming forward. No suspicious activity. Nothing.
The only thing interesting about pizzagate is how strongly people can hold on to beliefs with zero backing. I’m sure 99% of posts about pizzagate are LARPing really. (I think the same of Flat Earth. At least, way back when.) But we know how seriously some people belief it.
In fact, I’d go as far as to say, the fact there is no evidence backing it up is precisely why this stuff is so dangerous. If some one is mentally unsteady enough to accept any reason to hate their enemies, they are probably pretty dangerous to be around already. Now use a massive media operation so that person need no other source of news. He (sorry to be sexist, but I’m going to stick with “he” for the easily influenced viewer’s pronoun) knows he’s right. He hears nothing but that he is right. However, out in the dangerous part of the world, no one cares about this. It’s so fucking easy to dismiss this stuff. Why would anyone believe it?
This feels like persecution, gaslighting, and like “they” are all in on it. That’s fucking powder-keg as we saw in this matter.