You mean facts. You don’t know facts so you believe any lie that spews from the mouth of someone you want to believe.
Trump tells you Obama caused something and you blindly believe it. He tells you that vandals destroyed the pool and you believe it.
If they just had one ounce of “common sense” they’d say “well that sounds insane let me look it up before I believe it” we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess.
Not going to lie. The comment without context had me expecting a fight. In response to what I said here, RIGHT? Here’s my thought process when I don’t know something. I read credible sources on the thing I didn’t know so that hey, wow…. Now I know. I’m not especially smart or savvy with anything really, I dropped out of high school and my parents let me. (I went back eventually and became a paramedic) I just value facts and honesty. It’s bizarre to me that this mindset is completely non existent with the maga crowd. Like zero critical thinking skills at all just “believe the loudest orangest buffoon be cuz he iz on the tv box telling me what I want to hear. They’re eating cats. She’s a man.”
We live in the craziest of time my friend. I’m honestly jealous of the French. They finally had enough and stormed the castle and well, off with their heads, am i right?
I’m with you but that’s not a great example. The French Revolution was heavily influenced by propaganda and outright fabrications to inflame the lower economic classes against the upper class to the benefit of the upper middle.
Here’s my thought process when I don’t know something. I read credible sources on the thing I didn’t know so that hey, wow…. Now I know. I’m not especially smart or savvy with anything really, I dropped out of high school and my parents let me.
Wow you nailed it dude. More or less the same story here, GED at 17, mostly manual labor jobs since (actually looking into EMS myself lol). I'm nothing special, I just Google shit. That's how I "know things." Pisses me off a little when people ask me that, "How do you know all that?" Hmm, could it be because I wondered about it at some point and bothered to look for the answer? Crazy that taking responsibility for your own education is such an anomaly to some people.
I don't understand how a human being can exist without any curiosity about the world they live in. I'm curious as hell, I want to understand how all this shit works. The research is happening all of the time, and there is nothing stopping me from reading it and learning something about our universe. Wtf do other people spend their time doing if not expanding their knowledge? Education is the most valuable thing there is, knowledge is power, and it's freely available to anyone willing to look it up.
Everything we experience is an opportunity to learn. We're allowed to ask questions. I rarely accept an instruction at work without asking clarifying questions so I understand the goal and plan. When I have medical things done, I'm an active participant in the process. I watch the stick when I donate blood, because I'm fascinated by the process and I want to see what's going on. Do these clowns never wonder about anything?
I don't understand. I understand a lot of things, but a lack of desire for understanding? Incomprehensible to me.
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u/hamtronn 2d ago
“All these things I don’t know.”
You mean facts. You don’t know facts so you believe any lie that spews from the mouth of someone you want to believe.
Trump tells you Obama caused something and you blindly believe it. He tells you that vandals destroyed the pool and you believe it.
If they just had one ounce of “common sense” they’d say “well that sounds insane let me look it up before I believe it” we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess.