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Bachir Atallah you really thought you were white adjacent and one of the good ones?

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like there's a large subset of people that will just believe anything if it's said confidently.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."

  • Gustave Le Bon

Human nature unironically, not jokingly makes me want to kill myself.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

on reddit someone said the stupid people(magats, conservatives), often are "stupidly confidant" because they are unaware that thier views and motives are wrong, so they assume they are in the right most of the time. even a Law school/MD can lack smarts in many areas, despite being book smart.

[–] psud@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

No one is good at everything. I reckon the people sucked into MAGA were the people with no skill in bullshit detection.

Credulous people.

That's a different axis to any other category of smart, though so many are also stupid

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's Dunning-Kruger all the way down.