What’s been hardest for me to understand about the conspiracy prone Right isn’t their willingness to believe almost anything, it’s that the types of things they distrust (research, expertise, harm reduction, not-for-profit objectives) are almost always fundamentally or necessarily decentralized.
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Your oppression is their profession.
Here's a way to think about it
Skeptics usually aren't being skeptics for its own sake. It's because y'all are trying to rationalize coercion and harm
Not only do y'all misrepresent science, there will never be any amount of it that gives you the right to go against the 1st amendment
you're all committed to the lie of objectivity. so invested in it that you can't consider it's falsehoods
When a dogmatist is wrong, they have to apologize for whatever trauma they imposed while they were certain they were correct
Y'all carry thousands of years of trauma with you
You deflect and defend your cathedrals, but they are built on nothing but lies
Explains why all the orange fan down the the block could say on her politics since 2016 was to yell, "The STAHCK MAHKIT! The STAHCK MAHKIT."
(Now all she can say is "don't think about politics.")
Not trusting science has become a signal of patriotism and “true Americanism” … it’s wild.
the epistemologies and systems y'all use are flawed, but you don't teach people how to recognize it
and obviously the people whoss claim to fame is representing the authority...
there is no world where someone in a democracy is so correct they can't hear out different perspectives
that's not how science or democracy works
you condition yourselves to be fundamentally incapable of creativity, so the only thing left to be is correct
but the problem is that both the territory is shifting and we get better at making maps over time
in either case, the dogmatists look foolish when they harm they were absolutely justified to impose is no longer justifiable
and they're just anxious psychopaths ruling us all with emotional terrorism
The Right simply value group membership and social identity more. Often because they have nothing else.
You’re not the same. It would be weird if you DID understand.