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minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up118·1 month ago“your statistic is false because I have an anecdote” is literally the entire basis of the conservative understanding of science. union workers don’t make more on average because I earn half a dollar more. global warming isn’t happening because I brought a snowball. vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·1 month ago vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla. 😂
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoIt really is a kind of solipsism, emotional immaturity as a self-justifying worldview. Problems don’t exist until they impact me personally, repeat and nauseam.
minus-squareSylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoBecause I have an anecdote, and interpret it in the stupidest way possible, as exhibited in the OP
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoGlobal warming is a hoax, it’s cold in my basement today!
minus-squareSaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago“conservative understanding” Sounds like all conservatives are idiots or rather idiots are the ones who are politically conservative.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoit’s both. conservatism is both appealing to stupid people and it compounds stupidity.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoI can continue to eat things that kill me because I take statins that reduce my chance of heart attack by a couple percent.
“your statistic is false because I have an anecdote” is literally the entire basis of the conservative understanding of science.
union workers don’t make more on average because I earn half a dollar more.
global warming isn’t happening because I brought a snowball.
vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.
😂
It really is a kind of solipsism, emotional immaturity as a self-justifying worldview. Problems don’t exist until they impact me personally, repeat and nauseam.
Because I have an anecdote, and interpret it in the stupidest way possible, as exhibited in the OP
Global warming is a hoax, it’s cold in my basement today!
“conservative understanding”
Sounds like all conservatives are idiots or rather idiots are the ones who are politically conservative.
it’s both. conservatism is both appealing to stupid people and it compounds stupidity.
I can continue to eat things that kill me because I take statins that reduce my chance of heart attack by a couple percent.