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This is the stupidest shit Iā€™ve ever heard.

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remember that time you called health insurance ā€œgamblingā€, which is why you refuse to get any? (or support universal basic health care)

ah, good times.

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Iā€™m flattered that you spend so much time thinking about the things Iā€™ve said.

Iā€™m writing a book of my thoughts, Iā€™ll let you know when Iā€™m done.

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given youā€™re eating crayons at a faster rate than you can learn to write coherently, Iā€™m not going to hold my breath.

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not as stupid as some of your comments elsewhere.

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17 points

More stupid than oceans on the underside of a ball?

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5 points

šŸ˜‚

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More stupid than the earth being millions of years old? Everything would be old and rotten if that were the case.

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We used to make fun of people like this. Humiliate them. Alas, no more. Everyoneā€™s opinion is now valuable.

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Itā€™s not that their opinion is now valuable. We just figured out that Bullying doesnā€™t work.

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except that it does

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Sure, bud.

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Humiliating people does not help them grow, study suggests

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itā€™s just as equally effective to break dumb beliefs like this as reasoning is, and both are far more effective than empathy, according to studies.

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Iā€™m going to need a source for those claims.

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On the other hand, normalizing and allowing it just enables and validates it.

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No, but it prevents other people from engaging with a topic to begin with

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I think thatā€™s what the internet has done for us, itā€™s removed that sort ā€œsocial immune systemā€ that prevented crazy ideas from spreading. Before, if somebody had some crazy ideas, the most they could usually do was rant to people on the bus/subway, maybe make some pamphlets, or some other small-scale thing to spread the idea. At best you might find someone on AM radio broadcasting at weird hours. Individuals would get exposed to it, but would likely never pass it on, this contained crazy ideas and they rarely got traction to spread.

Now the internet comes along, and suddenly crazies are getting hooked up with impressionable people easier than ever before. Crazy ideas have an almost endless supply of rubes that will eat them right up. Our social immune system canā€™t protect society from all the insane things flying around at high speeds all over the place now. Itā€™s intellectual chaos.

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I mean the social immune system also prevented ideas like worker solidarity, gender equality, socioeconomic mobility, sexual freedom, etc. from spreading but I get your point. Opening Pandoraā€™s box let the crazies out as well as the AOC/Bernie and free Palestine crowds.

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The problem being, at least for the moment, the crazy is winning

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I wonder if sheā€™s pandering or if sheā€™s a believer. Surely sheā€™s been all around the world on planes.

I never liked her but I didnā€™t think she was a complete moron, just a shitty person.

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Eh nah. Pointless debate and argument is kek

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Man, a lot of comments on here are giving me reddit debate lord vibes. People talking about ā€œthe truth mattersā€, but the way a lot of them are saying, it sounds like they just want to ego boost and dunk on/bully someone that they perceive as inferior; which I suppose could also be called ā€œasserting intellectual superiorityā€.

Chances are that any argument you use on them is something theyā€™ve already heard, and the more you push and demean them the more defensive they will probably get, and the harder it will be to convince them. And even if you did manage to pressure and shame them into believing the earth is round, that wonā€™t suddenly make them good critical thinkers.

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The best way to convince these people of reality is to just say ā€œYou really believe that?ā€ and ā€œThat sounds complicatedā€ when they talk about it. Or you can laugh in a friendly way and say ā€œWho told you that? Theyā€™re trying to trick you.ā€

These people respond to emotions, not facts. Just tell them someone is tricking them. They want to have friends and special knowledge.

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Haha, itā€™s so funny that this guy believes in ridiculous ā€œscienceā€ like flat-earthism. Anyway, Iā€™m going to wander crowded indoor areas without a mask during a pandemic, see ya!

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