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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (27 children)

I mean, this is just about the least surprising thing in the universe.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (25 children)

There's actually a ton of conservatives that like RATM because they like how it sounds but don't understand the lyrics. They are often genuinely shocked when they realize.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

It blows my fucking mind that these people exist, agreed.

What the fuck machine do they think he's been raging against? A cappuccino machine?

Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.

It's that simple. Now, if only we had a functioning department of education...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.

The problem is they think that they are educated and that they have researched these topics by going to websites run by conservative think tanks. Once that's in their minds, they begin pushing any alternative viewpoint away as liberal propaganda because, in their mind, they've already researched it. They can't even consider that their research might have been compromised from the beginning to lead them to a purposefully wrong conclusion.

It can be corrected, but it takes a LOT of effort to undo 40+ years of misinformation and propaganda being drip fed to the populace through media conglomerates like Fox News, moonlighting as far and balanced sources of information. Purposefully sprinkling bits of reality in to point to when confronted about it.

You're not actually working to change someone's point of view on one topic, you're having to show them that potentially their entire belief system is based on lies and deceit to manipulate them, and not based on reality and facts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to educate their kids out from under them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Why do you think they've been systematically dismantling the public education system?

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