• huppakee@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’d really like to hear a valid argument from those who were too young to vote during the referendum and now want to stay out. I’d also like to ask them if they believe the Scots and Northern-Irish are free to leave the UK if they wanted to. Not that i expect i’ll hear something new when i ask them, I just really want to see if there is someone in that group that actually believes the things they’d say.

    • justaman123@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      They probably lack the capacity for that kind of introspection to develop a position. They just repeat what other people tell them and then believe it because there’s a sort of logic to it. Testing something for veracity once it’s past the coherence test is beyond a lot of people. Lots don’t even make it that far. Conservatives have an entirely different system for evaluating things, it starts and ends with what the man says it is.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        18 hours ago

        Testing something for veracity once it’s past the coherence test is beyond a lot of people.

        Ain’t that the truth. Until we can educate ourselves out of this, we are completely fucked.

        And the right has been aware of this for decades and (in the US at least) has systematically sabotaged public education in order to prevent this type of thought.

        Which is just so collosally stupid and short sighted.