Back when I first talked about tropes, I hadn’t fully sketched out my idea of open arguments. With that lens, the use of tropes becomes more clear. Take this one, for example: This is a trope that is going around about Lahaina. It’s the “Jewish Space Lasers” stuff — the idea that this is the result of a “Direct Energy Weapon”. DEW conspiracy theories are pretty old, but the whole “buildings are burnt but the trees are still standing” thing emerged as a social media activity during the 2018 California wildfires:
Tropes turn patterns into evidence
Tropes turn patterns into evidence
Tropes turn patterns into evidence
Back when I first talked about tropes, I hadn’t fully sketched out my idea of open arguments. With that lens, the use of tropes becomes more clear. Take this one, for example: This is a trope that is going around about Lahaina. It’s the “Jewish Space Lasers” stuff — the idea that this is the result of a “Direct Energy Weapon”. DEW conspiracy theories are pretty old, but the whole “buildings are burnt but the trees are still standing” thing emerged as a social media activity during the 2018 California wildfires: