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kleinbl00 · 3019 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters
This isn't entirely accurate. Humans are rational creatures, it's just that the inputs and outputs we're reacting to are a Laplace transform of the inputs and outputs we're presented with. The trick is to couch the argument to both sets of I/O and recognize that while you're doing so, you're also coming from a place of id, not ego.