• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I try real hard to not only change my mind but vocally (typographically) acknowledge when I was wrong because it’s so goddamnit rare and infuriating.

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      8 months ago

      same here, even when someone hasn’t changed my mind 100% I’ll often acknowledge if any of their arguments made me want to delve deeper into a topic and think more about my opinion on it

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    8 months ago

    If there’s one I’ve learned after being on the internet for 17 years, it’s this; you can throw an entire mountain of evidence at a conspiracy theorist and they STILL won’t believe you.

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      8 months ago

      Meanwhile back in reality…

      • Fluoride in drinking water isn’t safe

      • Iraq doesn’t have WMDs and we destroyed their country killing millions for some other reason

      • The government is spying on everything you do

      • JFK assassination must be shady since they keep refusing to release the final documents on it

      • New world order (globalism) is real and now they openly hold meetings and promote the idea

      • The vaccines were not “safe and effective” and many people were maimed and injured for a non-sterilizing vaccine that could never have stopped COVID

      • UFOs apparently do exist and Congress is admitting it

      • The government is brain washing people (MKUltra)

      • The internet is all bots and shills (Dead internet)

      • Many powerful people are pedophiles

      Just a handful of “crazy conspiracy theories” that are all seemingly accepted as true now.

      • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
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        Jeez, you need a glass of Kool-Aid to wash all that bullshit down with? You seem like the type to drink Kool-Aid

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Pretty sure this meme originates from an actual, specific Twitter exchange. Which became so legendary that people just repeated it secondhand, and now the secondhand repetition of it is getting screenshotted and posted.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      To me or sounds like Monty Python: ‘You don’t have to follow me, your all individuals, you have mine of your own!’

      (Crowd): YES, WE’RE ALL INDIVDUALS, WE HAVE MINDS OF OUR OWN!

      (One person in the crowd): No, wait, I’m not!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    An oft-repeated phrase between my friends an I in high school was when a dumb redneck kid told a friend of mine in class, “my opinions is facts.”

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    Hahah. If the commentor just went “you’re right, I just changed my mind”. That itself would make the OP some pause 😂

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    8 months ago

    this is what taking a philosophy class as a Marxist feels like lol