• DivineDev@piefed.social
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      8 days ago

      They don’t construct arguments the same way normal thinking people do, they start with the conclusion and just make up whatever as a reason for it and hope people buy it.

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        7 days ago

        I once called out my dad for this exact behavior. He literally laughed it off, “Yeah, that sounds like me.”

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          Sure, if you have a novel result, say from some experiment, you afterwards come up with theories to explain it. This is different from policy decisions though, where you have a situation at hand and need to come up with a way to deal with it.

          In this case:

          There’s an epidemic, we need to contain it
          -> it spreads through viruses expelled be sneezing
          -> use a mask to hinder the spread

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          People tell me to use masks, I don’t like that -> I need a reason to justify not wearing a mask
          -> “I can’t breathe!!”

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      Following George Floyd, in the depths of the pandemic, a friend happened to see one of the cops that killed him at the grocery store. Of course someone with massive infamy had no interest in wearing a mask at the time. But once it’s institutionalized to get away with shit…

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          I’m not. Americans are such insane sheeple it’s not even funny in an ironic way… it’s just how slavery will be re-institutionalized in the “west”. Dumb morons too interested in placation than freedom.