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  • fern@lemmy.autism.placetoWhite People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksNumb.
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    13 hours ago

    Half the country runs believing in Fox News, and our literacy is below the sixth grade level, well before reasoning is introduced to the curriculum. I consider myself a fairly logical person, and I see the idea of operating on reason-first (I phrase like this for clarity, as emotional-based choice is valid after processing after reasoning is established) virtually never followed, even when claimed. I have lost multiple jobs because of this exact problem. I am an advocate of it in all situations.

    Outside of my bubble, I have watched universities purge philosophy, and all philosophy courses, from their systems. There’s a shift in the definition of True, with the “post-truth” movement. You can see how much reason influences the public with how they prosecute minorities, where bigotry is believed over decades of statistics.

    Reasoning is non-existent here. Moot, no, reasoning is not of no practical importance, but it cannot be depended on here at this point.




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    18 hours ago

    Yet you all seem to conveniently forever this when it helps push your agenda.

    My adgenda is “oh god I don’t want to be killed and fools will fall for however the right spins this while liberals downplay the impact.”

    You don’t understand that a lot of the country will never see the debate, only clipreels of whatever the fascist supporting media will put out to make more money (which is more drama).


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    18 hours ago

    Umm no one here is being swayed by Biden being old to vote for Trump. I’m worried about those gullible people put there who will fall for it, who have been falling for this same thing since Reagan. There are so many out there that are too illiterate to sit through a debate and depend on short clips (foolishly) to get the vibe, and Biden tripped up and handed over a lot of fodder for dishonest people to use to generate disingenuous footage. We have been sold the idea that you need a strong personality (or at least a strong face) to operate on a state level and have been since… idk Roosevelt is the first personality I can think of where that was played up in school.

    You don’t seem to understand that most of America doesn’t run on reasoning for decision-making, but fear, and the right is a master of wielding that very effectively.