That’s my job but thanks

🤝

No worries friend👍

To be fair to me, I haven’t seen any other posts on this on the fediverse.

I don’t know the exact papers OOP cited, but here’s one that is strongly supported.

Essentially, the researcher proposes that motivation influences reasoning not just by adding bias, but by affecting which cognitive strategies (beliefs, rules, memories) people use. Motivated reasoning is constrained; people are better able to reach their desired conclusion when they can construct plausible justifications for it. They are not completely free to conclude anything they like. So even when motivated to be accurate, bias may persist if individuals don’t have or don’t use more appropriate reasoning strategies.

Assuming the papers actually dispute the original claim, you’d expect the person to whom OP’s referring to not require that approach but accept the facts and admit their wrongness upon viewing the data. The situation just ends up being ironic otherwise.

Your first mistake was trying to convince someone on Facebook of something at all

Welcome to the fold comrade🤝. Currently in the process of trying to deradicalize my family from the right as well

Walter’s confession copypasta

My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded, I… I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was… thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a “hit” on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can’t take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I… All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.

That’s kinda the problem though. Preferring it to be this way isn’t a realistic thing. Capitalism will end in favour of something else eventually; whether it be in our lifetimes or 500 years from now. That’s what Marxism explains.

Similarly, Marxism aims to achieve MORE democracy than we currently have. You’re only aware of the Leninist variants. You don’t actually know as much as you think.

This you?

You were on the right track but then fell off

It’d be worthwhile opening up your mind to Marxism. Tankies are kinda like the KKK of conservativism

china glazing" is a direct response to US propaganda

Cringe

During the Reddit exodus, there were lots of complaints about left wing extremism. Most of them were landing on ml, grad or hexbear. This isn’t a good thing in the long run, so the bad press is necessary; otherwise this place risks being branded as “tankie HQ” before we can get some real traffic here.

Ditto

by any objective measure.

Does that objective measure also happen yo include freedom of press? Because boy i have some news for you…

they back it up with facts.

Revisionist facts? Whose alt is this?

We’re fighting the same people — fascists. These ones are just cosplaying as leftists

W meme

https://chatgpt.com/share/68fb4d04-9960-8001-91f3-b8ab0e4f1808

For the inquisitive