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Victims of the echo chamber, we used to call them #dittoheads

I grew up Libertarian and around think tank dudes. "Insufferable" hardly covers it. Their ignorance is always better than someone else's real-world experience.

Thus, the constant parade of apparatchiks and hangers-on saying “fake news”, the removing books from libraries, and always - *always* - attacking lawyers and higher ed

Oh, I see you meet my father

I always think of Sun (major Unix company), where some founders were known to say that most of the smart people worked someplace else, as a way to keep that in check.

Seriously. I was really worried we'd have competent leadership in Trump 2.0 but instead he just got rid of everybody who tried to steer them in the right direction and spend an absolute shit show from jump Street technically from before jump Street

It’s a proven fact: it’s the folks proclaiming certainty on all the things that suck up the oxygen in the room—and feed the social media machines with their proclamations. Meanwhile, I’m back here in the “well actually “ group”…

Wait you mean thinking humans defeat stupid trolls... amazing. If they can't trigger you... they self destruct.

It's a shame that actually-talented people deal with imposter syndrome frequently holding them back while others would benefit from having just the tiniest bit of self-doubt before doing the worst things to society.

When it comes to logic, most people go through four stages. (1) Log-what? (2) Treats lists of fallacies as strategy guides. (3) Thinks pointing out fallacies is a substitute for making their own argument. (4) Makes their own logical arguments. The top 5% in right-wing spaces reach (3).

Get a load of Socrates over here!

A family member to the tee. Pokes the bear, then when you point out the obvious fallacies in their position, accuses you of “bringing up politics” (ummm no that was you), and then says “I’m done” and cuts off conversation. I am sooo tired of all of this.

Their willful ignorance of history is especially helpful because it means we at least have the advantage of a playbook for how fascism has been defeated in the past and we know they won't be ready if we use it because they haven't bothered to read it.