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[–] [email protected] 119 points 10 months ago

I can taste the irony. Or maybe that's just blood

[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago (3 children)

LOL, sooo close and then WHOOSH, totally missed the point

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

This one makes my teeth itch

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago

The last section of the comic kinda hits deep to me because that's exactly what happened once I worked up the nerve to leave Christianity. That was before I noticed the title, which just made it ironic.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Anyone else think a lot of conservatives feel this way?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I was thinking this is just straight up projection

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Nah, too self aware to be conservative. They've already done their research in the form of listening to half a dozen right-wing commentators. They're all saying the same thing so that must make it true.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Coming from the "I did my own research" crowd this shit is mind boggling. Aren't they the ones disagreeing with the scientific community regularly?

Waking up as a conservative must be like

Oh boy time to look for credible information on Facebook!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They have the horse blinders on and also have the fucking mouthpiece attached that makes them spew the rhetoric they see on headlines of Fox. And don’t you dare ask for any further details because that’s just asking to hear the same headline again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Omfg it's infuriating...

When we had Trump and all the Russian investigations my dad would send me some bullshit fox news opinion article and then I would spend hours going over the actual information from the government, id go over the hearing, I even explained numerous times how this or that individual uses specific words as they have legal meaning from xyz source.

His reply would be another fucking Fox news opinion article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I went through a phase of trying to argue facts with Trump supporters in my extended network of family and friends. I finally decided it wasn't worth it when the last of them I was in touch with went absolutely bugshit insane during COVID lockdowns, but probably the most demoralizing one was when I spent weeks going back and forth with a friend of a friend via DMs, citing research papers and statistics, only to be ultimately blown off with an admission that the guy didn't care about any of it beyond who was going to be friendlier to the oil industry (he worked as a safety consultant for offshore operations). No amount of racism, bigotry or violence was enough to sway him away from Trump as long as his own pocket was being lined appropriately.

I briefly went back to check how he was feeling about that when WTI crude went negative in the early days of COVID, but he was just parroting the Texas lieutenant governor's line about how grannies should feel proud to die for the economy, so I didn't even bother razzing him about it.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Anyone else think a lot of liberals feel this way?"

/r/Conservative, "Flaired users only."

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Flaired users only"

How very pro free speech they are!

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (23 children)

There was literally a popup that I saw posted on here a little while ago from r/conservative that tells you essentially "this is a conservative safe space, difference of opinion is not welcome, we do not wish to have outsiders try to change our beliefs. This is for conservatives to discuss conservativism."

They're a fucking joke.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Look at me, I'm the snowflake now."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think that's fair though. If you create a community for conservatives to speak to conservatives then that is who you want there. If you're in a community about skateboarding, you don't want to be inundated with people constantly saying that skateboarding is dumb.

(To give some context, I do happen to think conservatism is dumb, but I'm also able to see their point of view and why they would want private communities online. I have no opinions on skateboarding)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

It's not that they don't want people to say skateboarding is dumb, it's that theyre full pipe extremists and want to hear nothing of half pipes, ramps, grinding, or just using the board as a means of transportation. Loop back and forth on the full pipe or get out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

If your community consistently berates safe spaces, then making a safe space for your community is hypocritical.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago

Remember the study that linked lower intelligence to right wing beliefs?

That's why so many people become way more liberal after they leave home and go to higher education, they literally grow their brain.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Republican projection once again I see. They are nothing if not consistent (and predictable).

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the Projection in GOP folks!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

You know it because it's not Democrats that are 'losing' their friends and family.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (6 children)

They posted about a study on "do your own research" today on Vice. Very interesting read.

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Da bibble is full of the truths I need. There's no smaller seed than a mustard seed, and bats are another variety of bird. Is it the truth, or is it what you've been told you must believe lest ye risk ostracizing yourself from your peers?

I feel projection of right wing levels.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There's no smaller seed than a mustard seed

There might be more to that one than you think.

Here was the only group in antiquity with a different explanation for the sower parable (that it was about physical creation of the cosmos) talking about the mustard seed:

That which is, he says, nothing, and which consists of nothing, inasmuch as it is indivisible — (I mean) a point — will become through its own reflective power a certain incomprehensible magnitude. This, he says, is the kingdom of heaven, the grain of mustard seed

  • Pseudo-Hippolytus Refutations 5.4

This group kept describing seeds as being indivisible points that make up all things and were the originating cause of the universe.

Language pretty much straight out of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura where describing the atomism of Epicureanism for a Roman audience couldn't use the Greek atomos ('indivisible') and used the word for 'seed' instead.

In a book widely popular in the Roman empire 50 years before Jesus was born.

In fact, Lucretius's book is not only the only surviving book from antiquity to explicitly describe survival of the fittest being the mechanism by which mutants in nature survived or died off based on adaptation, but specifically used the language of "seed falling by the wayside of a path" to describe failed biological reproduction.

Again, in a book 80 years before a guy allegedly talking about how only what survived of randomly scattered seeds multipled and the seed that fell by the wayside of a path did not. In a public saying that was the only one in the earliest gospel to canonically have a "secret explanation" later on. Why were they so threatened by this saying?

There may have been more to the context around what these sayings about seeds from a guy killed by request of religious orthodoxy leadership were about in a culture where also from the 1st century a Rabbi was recorded as saying "why do we study the Torah? To know how to answer the Epicurean."

Don't just take at face value what cannonical Christianity says with its damage control versions of secret explanations and boring ass nonsense about 'faith growing.'

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget the fact that the Bible requires that any woman who isn't a virgin when married be executed. So, pretty much every republican woman.

If they actually followed the Bible, there wouldn't be any Republicans left.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The Old Testament only applies when it’s convenient

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives & strawman arguments go together like peanut butter & jelly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Can confirm, pb & j & projection sandwiches are the bomb

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"Science: two biological genders!"
"Oh yeah? Also science: 3.5 billion years of evolution."
"I don't wanna talk about this anymore, I have a headache."

...and so it goes...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Fun fact: Modern science does not say that there are only two biological genders but that even on a biological level, there is a spectrum. For example, there are measurable differences between the brains of a woman and a transgender man and there are more viable chromosome combinations than XY and XX.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Basic biology: there are 2 genders

Basic math: 15 is not divideable by 4

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I'm sure Zach loves his comic being used against him. The gall...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think the content speaks for itself. It's shit.

But let's talk about the typography: as someone who uses LaTeX, and irrationally hates bad typography, this one seems targeted. Look at the absolute state of the fourth panel! Ewwww. The river--- I just can't!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LOL they keep trying to call their apologia 'research' in order to give it unwarranted respectability

Interestingly, it happens that when you don't know how to actually do research (like, can you interrogate your sources, put them in appropriate context, evaluate what they have to say critically?) you're more likely to land on disinformation sources or feed yourself confirmation bias than you would have been if you'd read what experts have to say on a given subject.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Facts don't care about your feelings

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