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[+] -21 points 10 months ago (33 children)

Surely we are smart to trust the way we feel more than we trust a talking head on tv.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Says the twit regurgitating Fox News propaganda with absolutely no basis in fact, no sources, no data, nothing. Go find some credible primary sources for your horseshit - you'll see there are none.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (28 children)

    No one is talking about the "talking heads on TV". I'm talking about scientific institutions that have dedicated their entire existence to studying these things.

    If you're actually smart, you don't trust the way you feel because human feeling and intuition is heavily flawed and prone to fallacy unless you have extensive education on a specific subject and even then you still don't trust it unless you can back it up with evidence.

    You trust institutions of authority that have demonstrably shown themselves to be correct with decades of empirically backed evidence and study.

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  • [+] -13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Also, you remember that scene from 1984 where the hero was being tortured? He was told over and over to never trust himself and to only trust the state.

    That's you.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Wow, so not only are you just completely stupid but you also completely lack even a semblance of media literacy.

    You do know that scientific institutions and the state are two completely different entities, right? Don't answer, that was rhetorical, we all know you don't know a goddamn thing.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    For the purposes of my point the difference doesn't matter. Both are offering themselves as authoritative truth. Both are advising the suppression of personal truth in favor of that authority.

    (Now take a breath. Dang!)

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Your point is entirely bullshit and unworthy of any respect. Your lack of understanding of their differences is on full display by you attempting to assert that the nuance doesn't matter.

    Just because you're to stupid to understand it doesn't mean it doesn't matter. It just means you're fucking dumb.

    Now fuck off with your illogical fallacies and faulty rhetoric. Or don't and continue to expose the extent of your ignorance.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Most obvious ragebait account

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  • [+] -16 points 10 months ago (20 children)

    The word from the "scientific institutions" arrives at your door in the form of, yes, a talking head. Speaking with great confidence like an AI.

    I'll keep trusting myself, thanks. It has served me well so far.

    When you find yourself agreeing with the mob, that's a good sign that you're under the influence.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (19 children)

    If you only use secondary and tertiary sources and never bother to look into the primary sources of information then you're incredibly ignorant.

    Fuck off, delusional moron. You are a walking ball of fallacy and Dunning-Kruger. It is clear how sorely lacking you are in education. Spoiled rotten idiot who has lived a life of relative safety thanks to the very science you try to dismiss.

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  • [+] -8 points 10 months ago (16 children)

    There's the anger. That's what we inspire with our propaganda. Stop thinking and raaaaaaage!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (15 children)

    No shit, dealing with fucking idiots who are confident in their idiocy is infuriating.

    You clearly have never been to college and I doubt you even passed fucking high school.

    The only one who has stopped thinking is you. Now piss the fuck off, moron.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    I think they programmed you like a gameboy

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    I think you listen to too much Joe Rogan.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago* (12 children)

    I don't listen to Joe Rogan. I don't listen to any of that stuff, from any tribe

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Sure you don't bucko. You just regurgitate their talking points verbatim by mere chance.

    You are the poster child of the target demographic for right-wing misinformation grift.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I doubt it. .

    How about you, are you suffering from grift or is it truth?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Doubt facts all you want. They still remain facts.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    And questions still remain questions. I asked you one.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    You asked a bullshit rhetorical "question" that only serves to reinforce your fallacious position. You have no concept of logic or reason.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    Believe it or not it's a straight question and it is a subject that we can discuss rationally.

    This intense confidence in your own vision of truth is a problem

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Facts don't care about your feelings bud. Go back to school.

    You have no concept of rationality.

    This intense confidence in your own vision of truth is a problem

    The fucking irony coming from you. My "truth" is backed by decades of scientific, empirical evidence. When you can back up your insane claims with scientific data and study, then you will have a leg to stand on. Until then, all you have is feelings and a complete lack of education.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    And yet, instead of simply offering rational arguments, you sling invective and tell me how right you are and how wrong I am, over and over.

    It's like talking to a religious zealot.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    God the projection is strong with you.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I have not insulted you once. You have insulted me a dozen times. Peruse this thread if you doubt me.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Da fuck do you think you're doing when you're distrusting experts from all over the world and specifically only trusting a small number of serial liars who are known to deliberately hurt people for fun?

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