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[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The fraction of people who believe in conspiracy theories varys significantly from nation to nation. Northern Europeans are extremely close minded when it comes to conspiracys, while southern Europeans are much more open minded.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Northern Europeans just believe in different conspiracies. What percentage of Northern Europeans believe that the oil industry is actively engaged in a CONSPIRACY to repress novel forms of energy production and propagation of ideas related to climate change? 70 percent? 80?

Northern Europeans believe in all types of utterly retarded conspiracy theories that make Flat Earth seem plausible like 'White Privilege Theory' and various other nonsense. They're no more or less given to conspiracy ideation than anyone else and I'd wager they give the Turks a run for their money in that regard.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What percentage of Northern Europeans believe that the oil industry is actively engaged in a CONSPIRACY to repress novel forms of energy production and propagation of ideas related to climate change? 70 percent? 80?

I mean I wouldn't be surprised if coal and natural gas had a hand in advocating denuclearization of the European power grid

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh no doubt and just to be clear I'm not even really dismissing the idea that the whole fossil fuel conspiracy is true I was just trying to make the general point that every group believes in conspiracies and it's more that the sanctioned conspiracies don't get called that despite being essentially conspiratorial in nature.