• tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember thinking one benefit of the pandemic would be to show conservatives the truth vs what their propaganda says.

    Unlike all the other garbage policies they push that take decades before consequences are noticeable, not wearing a mask and not getting vaccinated provided a quick shot of reality as they watched loved ones lose their lives to the disease.

    So many more conservatives died because they did not take it seriously. Yet still nobody seemed to learn from it. Propaganda is powerful.

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      1 year ago

      Persuasive arguments against your point of view often entrench beliefs that were not examined critically in the first place.

      If your beliefs are structured around oppositional, contrarian reactionary thinking to protect some aspect of your ego you are not considering other ideas that don’t reinforce you.