Indeed there are some "incredibly strange people with some very twisted ideas and agendas", @tarazkp, not only on this platform but all over the internet. What I found so disturbing about that post though, was that the guy didn't seem mentally challenged at all, that he reached his crazy conclusions "honestly" if you know what I mean. Many comments hinted at him having lost his mind or something, but he hadn't; he stood behind his conclusions even after hundreds of very reasonable arguments against them. I'm no stranger to this phenomenon, as I've written a lot about the power of conspiracy theories and our natural capacity for cognitive dissonance and confirmation-bias, both being responsible for and amplified by the echo-chambers we all build around ourselves to a lesser or greater extent. Many people who've gone too deep into that rabbit-hole can't be reached anymore; they're lost to us for any reasonable exchange of ideas. I guess this was the first time I "saw it happen" in real-time, not just targeting a topic, but real people. It's my own fault I guess: I don't engage nearly enough with other people's content on Hive since the demise of @helpie :-( I do upvote posts from people I trust (you guys are now added there too), but that's all automated. Maybe I need to make more time...

Anyhow, ranting again... Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and respond!