• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yeah, I agree: Brain-dead morons who let themselves be easily swayed against their very own interests are everywhere—and unfortunately, they’re also so arrogant in their stupid idiocy everywhere that they flaunt their ignorance with extreme self-confidence.

    The internet is really a curse in these matters: People now have the sum of human knowledge right in their pockets, but so many of them are still guided by the most idiotic misinformation—apparently because it boosts their fragile self-confidence to seem to understand a completely false, yet simple, explanation.

    This seems to me to be the core tactic of climate change deniers: If you simply claim, without any evidence, that climate change doesn’t exist, the stubborn can maintain their irresponsible lifestyles and even feel superior to scientists, since they don’t even have to try to understand their arguments—they just say: nope, I don’t want to hear any of it because I’m just right. It’s the same behavior that defiant children exhibit.