• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    And I’m sure you have a fairly good idea of what is the ultimate source where those right-wingers on Facebook picked up a lot of their arguments from?

    Nah, this is an old-one. Inherent to the human condition, you might say. You see it everywhere, just in different doses.

    And why the arguments tend to be very emotionally persuasive even though they’re wrong?

    Because they appeal to tribalist instincts rather than rationality.

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      7 months ago

      I was thinking that they come out of literally the exact same how-can-we-produce-the-public-impact-we-want factories

      I have no real evidence or basis for saying that, it’s just what I think