• @[email protected]
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    -1110 months ago

    Why is questioning the government a bad thing? Shouldnt we have questioned the government more when we were looking for WMDs?

    • splicerslicer
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      2910 months ago

      Difference between holding government accountable and outright saying government is always the problem. The latter only creates apathy among voters.

      • @[email protected]
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        -410 months ago

        You have two different things there, holding the government accountable, is a thing that happens AFTER they have harmed you, why dont we have mistrust for them while they are making a claim?

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Small recent example. General blanket distrust in government leads to unwillingness to trust governmental health experts, leading to making the covid pandemic worse than was necessary.

          As was intended by those like Reagan.

          • @[email protected]
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            -310 months ago

            Or conversely, the general trust in the government led people to go along with measures like lockdowns that harmed the economy, caused severe inflation, and didnt let the kids go to school.

            You are literally repeating bullshit government talking points four years later, you need a little less trust in “experts”.

              • @[email protected]
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                -210 months ago

                I am a former engineer, so I am a data driven person not a propaganda driven person. I watched the data they published and I saw exactly what happened before and after lockdowns, and it was literally zero change. But they kept doing it for year(s?) afterward because you guys trusted them. And if you dont believe me, they had a whole big data anaylsis by JP morgan chase at the time. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11687699/lockdowns-difference-coronavirus-destroyed-livelihoods-jp-morgan/

                • @[email protected]
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                  210 months ago

                  “I’m a data driven person… just look at this article from the sun that supports my position”.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    010 months ago

                    I literally saw it and have a direct study at the time; you have a long winded article that says nothing about what I am talking about (unless you can point to the spot you think does). This is the part where you drift away because you wont change your mind.

                • @AtmaJnana
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                  Saying youre “data driven” while ignoring data. Having been an engineer doesn’t imbue in you some magical objectivity that makes your conservative talking points infallible. Read the thorough analysis in the link I posted. You’re repeating misinformation based on cherry-picked data.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    010 months ago

                    I personally with my own two eyes, watched the data, and then I later saw the study by JP morgan chase that confirmed what I saw. I believed lockdowns were going to have an impact, I was suprised they did not, but being data driven. The link I provided shows direct data with 50 various data points confirming what I said.

                    That is a long winded article you linked, point to the exact part that says that lockdowns in amerca were affective. Not the part that says “if americans were chinese it would have worked” or “it worked in other countries”. I provided direct data, what is your direct data?

            • Maven (famous)
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              210 months ago

              Did you know that the Boost app lets you add tags to people’s names?

              lol

      • @[email protected]
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        -1110 months ago

        Not really, because the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote. There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

        • @Aceticon
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          710 months ago

          the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote

          Not in the US, it isn’t.

        • @nomous
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          510 months ago

          There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

          Do you think anti-government sentiment makes people less apathetic? I don’t mean fringes on Facebook, I mean regular people who work and pay their bills and have an hour to get whatever news they can before they sleep and do it all over again.