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stldev 3 hours ago

This makes sense.

Facts cease to exist because you ignore them. I think Huxley wrote that.

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beloch an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Ignorance is strength" would be the Orwellian take.

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emodendroket 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Power of Positive Thinking is one of the few books Donald Trump has really internalized and it shows in his approach to a lot of issues.

	▲	nielsbot 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There’s also the deluded cynics who profit from fossil fuels. Why mess up their good time??

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mapontosevenths 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’ - Trump on COVID19

	▲	billfor 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This adds nothing; it is a very common problem on the left -- taking the words literally and out of context. Watch his entire comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1eptTaWVM His point was that many countries were not reporting cases accurately and that, at the time, the US had the most advanced testing so of course we were going to have more cases. He made the "very few cases" comment as an aside and a comparison. Grow up. The problem for the left is that middle-of-the-road folks objectively notice all this. The article highlighted at the top also illustrates this, masquerading as "news" without giving any discussion about the other side's view. It's not news. It's opinion.

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jmyeet 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We live in a post-factual world [1].

I'm not sure people realize just how dire this is. The politics of the largest, most powerful country on Earth are dominated by people who truly believe in dispensational premillenialism [2]. For these people their time on Earth is limited. Wrecking the Earth doesn't matter. The afterlife is forever. Senior government officials take seriously bringing on the apocalypse through a red heifer [3]. In fact, it's the cornerstone of Christian Zionism [4].

And what began this political movement? Racism [5], specifically a ruling that schools in the South couldn't be both tax-exempt and segregationist.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkWl7NaGprE

[3]: https://medium.com/@nour_alhakk/the-red-heifer-and-the-u-s-a...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

[5]: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...

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Helloworldboy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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