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[-] CapitalismsRefugee@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Last night my dad was talking about this "liberal propaganda" about the "supposed climate crisis" talking about the movie Don't Look Up. Fuck it pissed me off, I don't know how to respond to that. Conservatives aren't in reality, every fact that disagrees with their backwards fantasy is just some kind of liberal conspiracy that "wise" men would never bother considering.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It's really messed up how the world can be reduced to binary opinions.

By definition, liberals think more freely and are willing to entertain new ideas. With that of course comes that some of those ideas turn out to be counter productive or straight up bad. Ideally, this is when real liberals acknowledge this and shift to something else.

Conservatives on the other hand see this as a sign of weakness and misguidedness, so they take a stance rooted in what they "know" to be true. When that knowledge turns out to be false, they can't simply pivot because that would make them the same as liberals.

Not to mention, sticking to your guns is so much easier than admitting you were wrong and starting from zero again.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Change my opinion and position as I get new information? What do you think I am? Some kind of woke liberal communist!? /s

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Genuinely. What's the point. There's no convincing them because any evidence you could convince them with they've already deemed invalid before they've even laid eyes on it.

They're "sceptics" in the worst way possible in that they don't apply that scepticism to themselves.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They all think they figured the world out when they were just kids - and it shows.

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