I have a very finely tuned bullsh*t meter from decades of detecting and avoiding it. The most important part is having information sources you trust and are without bias.
Yeah, none of us are unbiased. Literally. There is simply too much to know, and the world is far too complex, with too many unanswered questions/problems, to judge things without bias.
Even something as “simple” as ethics, has no objective answers as far as we know. And when people can disagree on ethics, you know, the very foundation of what is considered bad and good, how can you ever be truly unbiased?
The next best thing you can do, is being almost conciously biased. Find your moral framework and ideology (and the status quo very much is ideological as well), and criticize it and yourself to the highest degree. You won’t be unbiased, but maybe you can get something productive going.
That you think there ARE no unbiased sources means that you’re a corporate shill, spreading agit-prop to discourage folks from finding things out for themselves.
You see what I just did, there? That’s exactly what you’re doing to me
Poor moron: “The stock market is doing great!” Me: “The stock market has nothing to do with YOU! Stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.”
Come in on saturday? Come in on saturday? I think the fuck not, my clipboard-carrying friend. People didn’t die at Blair Mountain, Virginian coal miners and their families didn’t walk through chlorine gas and machine gun fire, so that your ironed shirt ass could ask me to come in on a saturday. In fact, you know what, pass me that Springfield rifle, I need to talk to the boss.
Lack of immunity does not mean you cannot become resistant to it. Like with all things education will free you. It’s just a matter of finding enough of it and from the right sources
This implies I have to put effort in. I’ll just write this comment off as propaganda and pat myself on the back for a job well done combating BS for the weak minded sheep. - Most of society
In my experience most people are more than happy to have a conversation about things. It’s more about it being on their terms so they can find the information approachable
I agree. And on a more serious note, I think it all stems from the fact that people don’t like being confronted about their identity. And oftentimes people will hold onto beliefs so hard that they become part of their identity. Look at many flat-eathers, it’s not a belief they have, it’s who they are, they are a flat-eather, and when you try to attack or question someone’s identity they react very defensively. So showing a flat-eather that there is evidence disproving their belief, then they either must reject it or question their identity. And rejecting it is always much easier. Which can make those convos extremely hard.
I think it’s even more important that you come at the topic in a collaborative way.
Everyone has been force-fed the idea that “the other side is totally evil and wants you dead” for years now - people are on a hair trigger ready to be attacked at any moment
Once they’ve decided you’re on the other side they’re not looking for common ground or to understand your position, they’re just trying to win a fight. They’re hearing whatever supports their viewpoint and ignoring any holes you’ve poked in their worldview
I think keeping it approachable is definitely important too, but I think this first step is where things so often go wrong
It’s insane. I know Ukraine has a neo nazi issue, so does the US. And Germany and England and most other countries. Brazil has fucking Nazis who are Hispanic ffs.
But if they’re trying to say only Ukraine has Nazis and not Russia they’re outside their fuckin minds. I literally have met Russian Nazis, I know Russia has way more Nazis than Ukraine.
It’s true, I spoke with somebody who escaped from there and they said that rats eat babies and then people eat the rats and then the babies eat the rats and the baby looked at me.
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