There's a great Folding Ideas video about conspiracy theorists (Calgary based btw!).
The TL  R is that for these people it's not about making sense or standing up to scrutiny, it's about loyalty. That's why flat earth isn't as popular now as it was a few years ago, but most of those people have just moved on to the much more batsh*t Qanon. Here's the video, worth a watch if you have time
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
It's kind of chilling that this video came out several months before the Jan 6 riot and he pretty much predicted it.
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These guys come in and it’s always a nice polite one. You serve them because you dont want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And THEY bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh, this is a Nazi bar now. And its too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
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