If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? - eviltoast

Let me explain the question:

If fox news and religious propaganda are exactly that, propaganda, then they are victims.

If, however, every person is free to listen to what they want and then rant against liberals, migrants, Muslims, Arabs, trans, gays, atheists, you name it, then they are just gullible.

I’d have more patience for a victim than a gullible person.

Everybody is free to believe what they want to believe. What I don’t get is why they have to stir things up and why they believe they are the only ones getting it and everyone else is dumb, woke, a communist or is going to hell. Why can’t they keep their opinions to themselves?

  • GovCCC@hilariouschaos.com
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    6 months ago

    Oh, for fucks sake, not another one of these “I’m so smart, listen to me” posts.

    “Gullible” individuals, huh? You know what’s gullible?

    Thinking that anyone on this godforsaken platform is gonna change their mind because of some fancy-pants post with big words and a bunch of notes.

    Newsflash, @lemmy.world: people are stupid, and they’re gonna believe what they wanna believe, no matter how many facts you throw at 'em.

    You’re just preaching to the choir, sweetheart.

    You think you’re so much better than everyone else with your “informative” post and your 19.4k notes?

    Please, you’re just another self-congratulatory, circle-jerking, echo-chamber-dwelling, bleeding-heart liberal who thinks they can change the world with a few clever sentences.

    Wake up, buttercup, the world don’t work that way.

    And by the way, what the fuck is “vestigia.tumblr.com/r/no-stupid-questions”?

    Sounds like some hipster nonsense to me.

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      6 months ago

      2/10, mostly for the condescending use of “sweetheart”. Without that, 1/10. You can do better trolling than that.