anymouse1968:

2bpoliticallycurious:

saywhat-politics:

In part that’s because MAGA world is woven together with conspiracy theories. And we know that anything, including information that contradicts a conspiracy, can be distorted by conspiracy theorists to affirm the conspiracy.

This is largely due to the human propensity towards “apophenia,” which Merriam-Webster defines as “the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas).”

In other words, conspiracy theorists can always find a way to distort and weave criticisms of their beliefs into the “patterns” of the conspiracy so that the criticisms end up somehow “proving” the conspiracy in their eyes.

Therefore, there is no logical way to argue with MAGA folks, because at heart many of them are conspiracy theorists.

The crazy thing is that they are gaslighting THEMSELVES!

“We’re Not Gonna Take it” is a conservative anthem! They cry. Though it, of course, never was and Dee Snyder continues to refute the assertion.

Rage Against the Machine was better before they were ‘woke’! Really, have you LISTENED to them?

TV is so ‘woke’ now! They cry, even though The Golden Girls had an entire episode with Blanche getting schooled on how offensive the stars-and-bars flag is to black people… and she UNDERSTOOD!

Even friggin William Shatner claims that Star Trek was never ‘woke’. Was that before your interracial kiss with Nichelle Nichols or after the episode where Abraham Lincoln profusely apologized for calling Uhura “a charming negress”?

They’re stuffing their ears because they know they are losing. Even cis, straight, white guys like me are working to be allies to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks. Hell, there’s still gay marriage in Iowa, FFS. IOWA! That’s why they are afraid.

Let’s keep ‘em afraid until they go tf away.

“you cant logic someone out of a position they didnt logic themselves into” ~johnathan swift