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  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMen losing their mind
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    2 months ago

    Good lord the discourse here is about as well as the man or bear discussions.

    Something I notice is how everytime someone makes these kinds of criticisms, the counterarguments turn into a pit of semantics and extropolations. As if the original post was a massive research thesis rather than just women venting frustration over the entitlement and danger they’re subjected to daily.

    You gotta look past the specific wording to see the overarching societal themes, emotions, and issues. It’s like those magic eye pictures.






  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldExperts
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    2 months ago

    I get the logic was sound at the time but the logic seems to assume that this is all a game with predefined rules and strategy.

    Like yeah, incumbents typically won before, but would that hold up when everyone had an audible groan about voting for Biden?

    I feel like most of political strategy could be replaced by just trying to understand the people voting, rather than bundling up correlations into strategy and blindly following them.

    Like I feel like if you talked to most random average people, they’d have told you about the oppressive hopelessness they’re feeling. Maybe they don’t know why they feel that, but the general mood from everyone is that nothing’s actively good is going to happens.

    So of course getting a new candidate with a hope themed campaign will reawaken our passion, incumbent be damned.


  • I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because “it’s a theory not a fact” as if the label of “fact” exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. “Facts” is a colloquial word like any other, it’s not some special category above theories.

    Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein’s General Relatively equations reduces into Newton’s Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton’s Laws of Motion weren’t “wrong”, it’s just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

    The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.