• VanillaGorilla
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    71 year ago

    Yes, but I’d expect them to learn at some point. But they keep being idiots.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      They are stuck in ideology and emotional reactions. There is a concentrated effort to keep it that way with propaganda masquerading as news, usually owned by Murdoch.

      • VanillaGorilla
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        31 year ago

        Other people are as well but manage to stop and think about it. I’m not sure if you’re giving them too much credit.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I have the impression it’s more like people susceptible to gambling addiction and they’re opening a casino next door.

          • VanillaGorilla
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            1 year ago

            Yet they think others should take responsibility for their own actions.

            Don’t get me wrong, I’m with you to a certain degree. They have been deceived and those people need to be stopped. But some of the shame should be granted to the deceived as well, as they fall over and over for the same shit.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              others should take responsibility for their own actions

              While blaming anything wrong in their life to some other group, a scape goat appointed by someone else. It’s amazing how well that trick works.

    • Echo Dot
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      See, this is how people end up being in favour of eugenics.

      It’s not that stupid people exist, it’s that they keep being stupid, and bafflingly self-destructive, even after their stupidity is demonstrably demonstrated to them.

      • VanillaGorilla
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        111 year ago

        I’m in favour of education. There was a time when people lacking education strived to close the gap and become a better version of themselves. I’m not sure how we lost that, but I want it back. I’m not only talking about school. People went to classes after work, read about new stuff and invested into themselves.

    • cassetti
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      41 year ago

      It’s the lost-cause fallacy. They’re incapable of self reflection because it could compromise their entire identity/beliefs.

      Talk to anyone who worked in hospitals during the height of COVID. All of them encountered people gasping for air as their lungs filled with covid pneumonia, on their death beds insisting they did not have covid, and it was all a government conspiracy. Even on their deathbeds, these people still cannot accept reality.