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Why do republicans seem so willfully ignorant of facts?
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:40 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur Identity Over Information: Modern U.S. politics has become deeply identity-based, not just issue-based. For many Republicans, being conservative is tied to who they are — their community, religion, culture, and sense of patriotism. When facts challenge that identity (for example, about climate change, vaccines, or systemic racism), it can feel like an attack on their group rather than a data dispute. People instinctively defend their identity over adjusting their beliefs — it’s a universal human bias called motivated reasoning.
Media Ecosystem Reinforcement: Conservative media — especially outlets like Fox News, talk radio, and certain online platforms — have created parallel information ecosystems that emphasize partisan loyalty and skepticism toward mainstream institutions (academia, government, science, journalism). This reinforces existing beliefs and inoculates audiences against outside information. Once that feedback loop is in place, facts that contradict the narrative get framed as “liberal propaganda.”
Distrust of Institutions: Since at least the 1970s, conservative leaders have built political capital by attacking elites and experts — from the “liberal media” to the “deep state” to universities. Over time, this cultivated a cultural stance of distrust toward authority and expertise itself. So even when accurate information is available, it’s discounted if it comes from distrusted sources (scientists, journalists, bureaucrats). |
Date: October 29th, 2025 9:44 AM Author: Paralegal Jahangir you need to be beaten (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384340) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:47 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur care to provide any well articulated counterpoints? or, maybe you’d prefer to resort to the maga playbook of calling people names when you have nothing else to say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384343) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:47 AM Author: Paralegal Jahangir are you asking me to rebut your retarded AI slop?
i didn't call you names. i said you need to be beaten, faggot. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:01 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur yes, if its retarded you should be able to rebut it easily (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384369) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:49 AM Author: i gave my cousin head can a man be a woman? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384348) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur In my opinion, currently no. but with future biotechnology it will probably be possible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384380) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 1:04 PM Author: i gave my cousin head whats the opinion of the average democrat and the democratic party? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384916) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, there's ignorant on both sides and across all spectrums.
right now, though, with media and universities having lurched left, the cons are far more interested in fact and debate and the libs are far more interested in proclaiming orthodoxies. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:01 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur can you provide some examples? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384368) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Believe all women! The lab leak theory is impossible and is racist! The Hunter laptop is Russian spycraft! This will be a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated! We have eight years until climate change will destroy humanity! Trump said Nazis were "fine people"! etc.
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:03 AM Author: ebt Stop copy pasting this chatgpt slop you internet addicted pedophile (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384377) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: dirigible behemothaur No counterpoints, just insults, the maga way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791174&forum_id=2,#49384384) |