• VubDapple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not always a lack of intellect on their part. Its the primacy of emotional processes like fear such that intellect is subordinated to those emotional processes.

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      A person who is quick to anger and slow to understand can be more succinctly described as “fucking stupid” or simply “conservative”.

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        Ah, good ole’ “never attribute to malice that which can explained away by treating other people as subhuman trash so you don’t have to put intelligent thought into your beliefs”.

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      In at least some cases, they knew emotionally and intellectually, and didn’t care. They repeated a lie knowingly, because they were mad their bully in chief wasn’t reappointed by the flipping EC, which both sides are finally admitting are a detriment to democracy.