• PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It was true before the internet too, there was just less opportunities to witness it because you didn’t interact with thousands of strangers at once.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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      6 months ago

      Well… Yeah that probably checks out. I have met an engineer who was sure 9/11 was planned demolition even though we literally sat and did the math to prove it was essentially a damaged free fall with no outer explosions… And a biologist major who believed in creationism…

      People are full of bad takes in shocking hypocrisy. This is definitely just the more public long lasting version of all those.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa
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      6 months ago

      To paraphrase the post,

      We people have always been ignorant, we just keep the receipts now.