• SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

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        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.

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            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.

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              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.

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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.

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      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.