• ResoluteCatnap
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    5 months ago

    lol… who the hell thought anti-fa were behind Jan6?

    Try Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz @ 1:16:00

    If I recall correctly the insinuation made about this far-right group was on Joe Rogan podcast. This is the only thing I can find that goes into some details regarding the conspiracy theory about the group.

    Theres this concept of asymmetry of proof which makes it more difficult to disprove something (especially a broad claim) than it is to prove it. I suspect that’s why you’ve been getting downvoted because it takes little effort to say “aren’t they actually fbi?” then to go through and find evidence indicating otherwise. This is why the burden generally is to prove something, not disprove something. In this case Joe Rogan/whomever makes up shit and it is his/their responsibility to prove it. Just because someone says something doesn’t make it true. For instance if I said unicorns are actually real and are invisible aliens from Jupiter’s invisible moon then that is something very easy for me to claim, and would be impossible for someone to definitively disprove. Whereas you could instead ask me to definitively prove it and I should have some reasonable argument for why this exists (with hard evidence to support it) . Fortunately in this case there does seem to be other sources that also dig into these false claims of the Patriot Front. And again, the burden of proof still lies with whomever actually proving these claims rather than other sources disproving them.