cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31730469

To redirect revolutionary energy from destroying to the system to just criticizing Trump. It is a way for them to gain popular support and show themselves as anti-establishment instead of the bourgeoisie that they are who need to be overthrown

  • OldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Probably not. Your average Westerner is incapable of changing their minds via someone presenting evidence or a well thought out argument. They have to come across it organically and it has to be their idea. It looks weak if you change your opinion in the face of new evidence, so it has to be something they bump into on their own, like when your aunt “discovers” this hip new restaurant called chilis

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      12 days ago

      A good rule of thumb is to assume that your average American is Mac from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, in that the fact that science makes you look like a bitch sometimes is evidence that it doesn’t actually know things. Or they are Dennis in that they assume that the science is right because that makes them feel superior to others, not because they are actually interested in the truth-value, or why and how we understand the science.