How do people become so broken that they listen to nonsense like this?
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Partisanship and tribalism is a strong force. There are (much, much) weaker equivalents on the left if introspection is your thing.
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Like 9/11 trutherism, certain flavors of GMO hysteria, certain flavors of the Russia conspiracy theory.
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I say "certain flavors" because there are plausible arguments inside each of the latter two movements.
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Related: how does anyone believe in homeopathic remedies?
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No arguments here. The GMO stuff is the worst. People literally dying because of leftist science illiteracy.
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I really do not mean to imply equivalence. Nobody with the cultural cachet of Limbaugh on the left denies something as simple as hurricanes.
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I guess one blind spot is "all corporations only care about profit" which causes people to miss other, better explanations for bad behavior
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During the South Africa Truth Commission they talked about the goal being to "reduce number of things that can be lied about" a worthy goal.
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I believe societies need to routinely go through some explicit processes of finding consensus and truth. Too much opinion is really toxic.
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