Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.

They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.

  • s20
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    1 year ago

    Yes, that was the gist of their point I think. The thinking being that choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil. My point was that if evil is going to win no matter what you do, isn’t it better to pick which evil you’re going to have to deal with?

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      1 year ago

      It’s seldom the case that the lesser of two evils has to win save when you aren’t allowed to choose a good path because of entrenched interests better served by evil.

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        1 year ago

        Are you familiar with the U.S. Presidential electoral process?

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          1 year ago

          Exactly the situation described. It’s possible to fix that process but too many entrenched interests render this impossible

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      Mm, I think what you’re likely arguing about is super contentious, AND complex. I agree that picking the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil (because it is, it says so right in the phrase!). That isn’t to say you’re necessarily endorsing the second evil, or that youre evil for making the choice. The world is fucked up and complex and no one is perfectly good.

      But yeah I think conversations around voting, especially in the US, are really difficult to have because people are extremely opinionated and none of us REALLY know what would happen if we stopped voting altogether, which makes a lot of people anxiously compelled to do it(such as myself)