My social media environment (mostly Lemmy for the last year, after I left Reddit) is very leftist. I’m finding myself floating more and more left because y’all have a point and there’s not many counter-arguments in this social media environment. I sometimes wonder if that’s how MAGA folks feel–floating more and more right because that’s what they’re surrounded by.
Of course, my floating is (naturally /s) based on reason and leftists making good memes/arguments.
Anyways, that’s this morning’s introspection.
Side showerthought: my convictions are based on memes. Anyone have nice, accessible resources for giving those convictions a more solid base? I’d love something like a graphic history of leftist thought (similar to Queer: A Graphic History). Something approachable but with citations. Thanks :)
There is a difference between believing someone is saying nonsense and plugging your ears when they say anything. If someone talks about microchips in the vaccines and certain entertainment producers are pedophiles, you know the vaccines don’t have microchips in them because of technological limitations but you can’t prove that producers aren’t pedophiles.
The boy who cried wolf was right the one time when nobody listened.
Snowden exposed what conspiracy theorists were lambasted for believing because the truth was masked by nonsense.
If I told you that the US government was force sterilizing Native American women for decades, I may sound unhinged until you gave it enough consideration to find out what the reality was in the 60s and 70s.
If I told you the US government was giving unknowing black men STDs, you may not believe me until you looked into Tuskegee.
Those things are true, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say because some claims are true that any and all claims have merit.
Also, you should reread the boy who cried wolf. The point isn’t that the wolf is real, the point is people won’t put up with bullshit.
That’s not how proof works. it’s not up to you to disprove every claim someone makes or else accept it as true, it’s up to them to prove their claims.