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  • When confronted with any questions that make people evaluate their dissonance people will often fall back on “I don’t know” and refuse to engage information that contradicts their beliefs. If they do engage at all it may come in the form of circular logic, “Things are this way because they just are”.

    It can basically become a parent getting exasperated trying to explain why the sky is blue to a kid when they don’t really know themselves.

    The disconnect is often that their worldview is they are “right” and they just know that they are, and trying to prove otherwise kinda circles back on the sky argument. Saying that they are wrong is like telling them the sky is neon yellow, they know you’re wrong in their mind.

    So yeah I’m not sure how to get through to that other than people being social and usually abandoning ideas if they conflict with everyone around them and offer no options for people to engage with them, but that can be undone fast with an echo chamber of false information or really anything that reinforces their beliefs.










  • The backend on YouTube is pretty much designed to encourage skub (ragebait/“engagement”). Having comments that are incendiary is good for the video’s performance.

    Does that make it the perfect breeding ground for astroturfing and pushing misinformation? Probably. Bad actors can basically use it as a cheap form of advertising and pushing ideas that benefit them. Even the creator of the video if it was a video that has a completely opposite viewpoint of those comments still stands to benefit from having them because that increases engagement and their revenue.

    So I guess my point is is that YouTube has a lot of problems and there is a multitude of reasons why comments like that have a home there and motives for them.









  • So many gun laws exist today because Black Panthers doing cop watch. Basically they were across the street from police watching them during traffic stops with their guns out and it lead to a lot less people getting killed or mistreated during traffic stops. That’s kind of a simplified history of it.

    In my area police made some policies that lasted for more than a decade about not patrolling a certain area and then needing to respond with a shitton of officers if there’s more than 2 people involved in a “potentially volatile situation” due to a bunch of people shaking a cop car and telling them to f off 20 years ago.

    So blasting all quasi legal unmarked cops/ice isn’t realistic or necessarily what most 2A people advocate there’s plenty of history and merit in letting them know that people can potentially fight back, probably easier than you think to scare them considering a lot of the modern training is fear based



  • Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldFireworks Suck
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    I always thought it was a major fuck you to veterans that the big state funded fireworks display where I live is launched like 10 feet from the veterans hospital where they have people living there and being treated for PTSD.

    Also I worked second shift so driving home through low visibility “fog” a few hours after everyone stops shooting them off feels eerie when you live in a city that doesn’t get fog. That’s probably not good for breathing, but I don’t really know about just kind of being anecdotal