The stupidity of conspiracy theories
Funny but true story - After Obamacare was passed, my nutty conspiracy minded friend started telling me that Obamacare was a way to track people with "implanted chips".
He knew this because "he did his research".
He was locked into this stupid idea. I asked him how will the chips get implanted?
At first he had no idea, but since I had talked about how many people I was seeing getting treatment at the hospital because of Obamacare, that was his next claim. Doctors and nurses would put them in.
Wait, you mean that doctors and nurses are going to implant something into people's bodies without their permission?
Yes if they don't agree. According to him, most people would agree because they wanted healthcare.
This is someone I was friends with for half of my life. I said wait you know me, you think that I would forcibly implant something in a patient? I would have to, he says.
I said OK, you do realize that would be a crime? You think I am going to risk going to jail for battery to put in a chip for the government to track you?
If I wanted to keep my job I would have to. They might tell me it was something else and I would be fooled into putting it in. It just went round and round with no end. He would counter everything I said with more stupidity.
He became more desperate to hold on to this stupid idea than just say, oh OK I misunderstood what this was.
A quick google found that he was referring to devices already implanted -
The Claim: Beware, Obamacare is going to implant a microchip in you, cautions yet another chain email batting around the internet: “This new Health Care (Obamacare) law requires and RFID [radio frequency identification] chip implanted in all of us. This chip will not only contain your personal information with tracking capability but it will also be linked to your bank account.”
The Reality: As Snopes points out, “[C]laims that health care reform legislation will require such implantations date to the Clinton administration” and are “often linked to the ‘mark of the beast’ referenced in Revelations.” The sections of legislation referenced in the email and others like it pertain to a passage in a previous version of the health care law that called for the creation of a registry that would allow the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collect data about medical devices “used in or on a patient”—such as pacemakers or hip replacements—in order to track their effectiveness. Nothing in the Affordable Care Act calls for the government to stick a microchip in your wrist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/7-obamacare-conspiracy-theory/
We are talking about an otherwise "normal" person when he's not going down the rabbit hole of stupid conspiracy theories.
I think about him whenever people think that there is something that Dems can say to convince people that believe propaganda.
Its futile.
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