Setting aside the fact that "Reddit" isn't one monolithic entity and a quarter of the user activity on this platform probably isn't even human, and another quarter are not commenting or posting in good faith (e.g., state actors online influence campaigns), still it can be said of Reddit at large that people are mind-bogglingly unintelligent and genuinely believe and propagate the most absurd conspiracy theories , making most here no better than MAGA cultists, Sandy Hook deniers, and 9/11 truthers.

I'm talking about all the politically motivated shootings that happened recently, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and then at Butler, PA. A lot of Redditors genuinely believe without a shred of evidence these were staged or "false flag" events, concocted by Trump to boost his polling numbers. Which to me is crazy because there's not a shred of evidence for it, yet people assert it as though it were a foregone conclusion.…