It's honestly a travesty what's happened to Reddit. If I want to search for a forum topic or something where random people give their honest opinions, Reddit was about the only place left on the internet and now that's gone too.
splonglo
joined 1 year ago
'no empathy' people are wrong about cons. They have empathy but it is selectively turned off for certain groups because they have been conditioned to be afraid or disgusted by them. This isn't an excuse but it is normal behavior - a lot of lefties don't give a damn about the wellbeing of cops either. It's not the same thing but it IS the same mechanism. Fear and hate stops people from feeling empathy. It's human psychology and the cornerstone of all right-wing rhetoric.
I believe that by learning to undermine that kind of hateful rhetoric we can kill the soul of the anti-trans movement.
rightoids seething
I think you're remembering it wrong and comparing different groups of people.
'Criticise politicians' is not a fair representation of the DSA withdrawing their endorsement for AOC.
Man could have been hit by a meteorite and they'd say the same thing.
The polls I see put it at about 50-50 ( from Fivethirtyeight.com ).
Your summary is wrong. They put out an opinion piece arguing that the DNC underestimates the threat from the GOP. I agree, they're running a pathetically weak campaign against someone who will probably end democracy and might have them all killed.
The person you're talking to is unlikely to be pursuaded but there's usually silent, invisible lurkers who can be.
I know I've changed my mind on things because of arguments I've read on the internet.
It is proven that people do double down on their views when confronted with opposing evidence, but IMO this is more about the psychology of trust and confrontation between individuals, rather than proof of the futility of argument as a concept. Hell, Vsauce made a video called 'The Future of Reasoning', where he makes the case that argument might have been selected for as an essential part of human psychology and necessary for our survivial.
The trick is to argue with the voices in your own head and simply project them on to other people's comments.
Political apathy.
The really funny thing here is that Elon's Twitter has openly complied with censorship orders from Hungary already. The free speech stuff is fake. Twitter does overt political censorship on request.