• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Conservatives are too stupid to actually verify anything their idiot “news” media tells them.

    It’s not that they’re too stupid. It’s that they are too biased. They don’t want to know the truth. Most of us acquire information and then come to a conclusion about reality. Conservatives, at least the worst of them, come to a conclusion about what they think reality is or should be and then go looking for information to support that conclusion. As long as the data supports their conclusion, it doesn’t matter if the information is wrong once they have it.

    Edit to remove extra word

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      2 months ago

      This is 💯.

      I remember after the 2016 election I was on Reddit saying how every cabinet pick Trump made they’d just research a different argument for why it wasn’t the worst pick ever. When I wrote that they were like, “what else could we do?!”. The idea of a politician picking easily understood and qualified people for cabinet positions didn’t even cross their minds.