Disordered doubt isn’t about healthy scepticism. It’s a systematic effort to break trust in evidence, institutions, and truth itself. It thrives by creating confusion rather than clarity.
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sep 14, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
This horrific Republican Administration has been strategizing for decades. Confusion, fear, and overall distrust enables authoritarianism.
sep 10, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The four pillars of disordered doubt: Doubt the Evidence Doubt the Source Doubt the Process Doubt the Claim Each pillar corrodes truth validation in a different way, but together they build epistemic collapse.
sep 9, 2025, 4:28 pm • 412 145 • view
Yes. This is demonstrated in Steve Bannon's favorite tactic, "Flood the zone with $#!+"
sep 10, 2025, 3:07 pm • 9 0 • view
and then have a compliant main media not willing to challenge and cowered and you get this ...
sep 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 8 0 • view
They hide behind the concept of neutrality to defend "both sides" reporting. Some say fire burns, while others disagree.
sep 10, 2025, 3:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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sep 10, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
From "On Tyranny" by @timothysnyder.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/4321/97808...
sep 10, 2025, 3:05 pm • 8 0 • view
Doubt the Evidence – Every fact can be framed as incomplete, faked, or manipulated. Or worse, reinterpreted to mean the opposite of what it shows. A bombing becomes “staged,” a victim “an actor.”
sep 9, 2025, 4:29 pm • 197 21 • view
Doubt the Source – Attack the messenger instead of the message. Journalists are corrupt, experts are biased, witnesses are actors. Once the source is discredited, the content is dismissed without review.
sep 9, 2025, 4:29 pm • 184 19 • view
”I have a “theory” about why none of my colleagues take me seriously” that’s great man
sep 10, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
Can you explain what's incorrect about it?
sep 10, 2025, 6:26 am • 5 0 • view
can you suck my dick, you fucking whore for empire? I hope to live to see everyone like you hang 👍
sep 10, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you, glad to have seen that account rear its ugly head so I could block it
sep 10, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Doubt the Process – Undermine the mechanisms of validation. Courts are rigged, investigations are politicised, science is captured. If the process itself is illegitimate, no conclusion can ever be trusted.
sep 9, 2025, 4:29 pm • 182 21 • view
Doubt the Claim – Even when evidence, sources, and processes hold, the claim itself is reframed as impossible. “That could never happen.” This is denial dressed up as common sense.
sep 9, 2025, 4:30 pm • 173 19 • view
Common sense is so overused. 500 years ago, people were looking at the Sun trajectory in the sky and common sense told them it was turning around the Earth
sep 10, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
If you've followed the use of chemical weapons in Syria you would have seen these tactics deployed repeatedly. Videos are staged, The White Helmets are untrustworthy NATO paid terrorists, the OPCW is corrupt, Assad would never use chemical weapons when he's winning.
sep 9, 2025, 4:31 pm • 181 22 • view
Together these pillars form a fortress of doubt. They don’t need to disprove reality, only to make certainty impossible. Once people internalise them, any fact can be denied, or turned into evidence of the depths to which the out-group will go to deceive the in-group. Sound familiar?
sep 9, 2025, 4:33 pm • 247 36 • view
"Often, when the film's protagonists were confronted with reality, they at first didn't believe, would suddenly just adopt a position that explained the broader picture they had already created." kyivindependent.com/what-happens...
sep 9, 2025, 4:59 pm • 40 8 • view
I wonder whether the requirement/expectation of certainty is in itself problematic, and therefore enabling of disordered discourses? For example are societies that use the precautionary principle as susceptible? Would requiring that we make underlying values more explicit help mitigate this?
sep 9, 2025, 5:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, the demand for absolute certainty can feed disordered discourse, because nothing in complex reality is ever 100%.
sep 9, 2025, 6:00 pm • 9 1 • view
The key is to make values and thresholds explicit: what level of evidence justifies action, what risks we accept, what principles guide us. That transparency makes doubt manageable rather than corrosive.
sep 9, 2025, 6:00 pm • 8 2 • view
Now the question: what to do to counter that?
sep 10, 2025, 3:15 pm • 1 0 • view
By fostering an environment where "nothing is true and anything is possible," those employing this strategy can manipulate perceptions, sow discord, and achieve their objectives with greater ease…..Russians have mastered it.
sep 10, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view