• eskimofry@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    See you’re doing it again. You’re insulting the intelligence of critics and saying they are too daft to read charts or understand the benefits of vaccines. Instead of focusing on the actually problematic stuff.

    A politician with the same level of knowledge and experience as a Doctor? Surely you know those two things are different.

    How much are you scared about Trump being in office that you will bash people for criticizing democrats?

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      6 months ago

      I’m insulting the intelligence (or, the education / choice of worldview) of someone who wants to look at a large analytical and hard-to-understand problem through an ancedotal lens, and actively rejects someone who wants to talk about the numerical aspect as “talking down” to them. I feel comfortable insulting that way of being because to me it’s very wrong. It’s not done out of hatred or anything for someone who does that, but they are making a mistake yes, and it’s a deceptively infectious mistake in a way that makes it worthwhile to call out. In my opinion.

      How much are you scared about Trump being in office that you will bash people for criticizing democrats?

      Pretty sure I posted an excerpt elsewhere in this thread that was highly critical of most Democrats’ strategy, and earlier today I posted a video of Biden fucking up the response to a question about “anti-Semitic” protestors, and briefly talked about how he fucked it up and why. Criticizing Biden or Democrats I think is great. If I think the criticism is wrong (or particularly if I think the pattern of thinking behind it is wrong) then I’ll “bash” the person doing it, yes.

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        6 months ago

        I’m insulting the intelligence (or, the education / choice of worldview) of someone who wants to look at a large analytical and hard-to-understand problem through an ancedotal lens

        Most people don’t care about broader economic trends when they’re deciding which bill to not pay this month. Democrats have forgotten how to speak to that.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah. Hence the good points in the OP article. Doesn’t mean that analyzing the bigger picture suddenly becomes a bad thing to do though.

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            6 months ago

            Nope, but calling people who are suffering antivaxxers because they don’t slap on a big doofy fake grin and pretend that Biden is their fucking savior is insulting.

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              6 months ago

              Why are you so hostile to the idea of objectively trying to determine what is and isn’t working, and who is and isn’t helping the situation?

              And I didn’t call anyone suffering an antivaxxer. I sort of called PP_BOY an antivaxxer, but that was specifically because he used antivaxxer style arguments.

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                  6 months ago

                  Okay. Let’s try the other part, then. Why are you so hostile to the idea of objectively trying to determine what is and isn’t working, and who is and isn’t helping the situation?

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                    6 months ago

                    Objectivity doesn’t involve calling people who you hate because they’re poor in spite of Biden being president antivaxxers.