To be fair to me, I haven’t seen any other posts on this on the fediverse.
Couldn’t give a fuck mate👍
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I don’t know the exact papers OOP cited, but here’s one that is strongly supported.
Essentially, the researcher proposes that motivation influences reasoning not just by adding bias, but by affecting which cognitive strategies (beliefs, rules, memories) people use. Motivated reasoning is constrained; people are better able to reach their desired conclusion when they can construct plausible justifications for it. They are not completely free to conclude anything they like. So even when motivated to be accurate, bias may persist if individuals don’t have or don’t use more appropriate reasoning strategies.
Assuming the papers actually dispute the original claim, you’d expect the person to whom OP’s referring to not require that approach but accept the facts and admit their wrongness upon viewing the data. The situation just ends up being ironic otherwise.
Your first mistake was trying to convince someone on Facebook of something at all
Welcome to the fold comrade🤝. Currently in the process of trying to deradicalize my family from the right as well
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News@lemmy.world•AOC reacts to question if Chuck Schumer should remain leader
42·2 days agoVOTERS ARE ALREADY AWARE THE PARTY IS PROBLEMATIC.
They don’t need it repeated for the umpteenth time. She needs to start making more cutthroat statements and quit tap dancing around the conversation.
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News@lemmy.world•AOC reacts to question if Chuck Schumer should remain leader
37·2 days agoIt’s all about framing. She could’ve and should’ve been more assertive about it. While it’s okay to point out the problem is bigger than the senate minority leader, she nevertheless should be about the matter. Millions of Americans will not be able to afford health insurance anymore. This isn’t the time for pragmatism; everyone is angry, and her words should echo that anger. People want action and assertive language is as close to action other than action itself.
It’s not even like it’s scapegoating, Schumer has been incompetent for a while now, and this should be the final straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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News@lemmy.world•AOC reacts to question if Chuck Schumer should remain leader
828·2 days agoWeird how the comments are defending AOC here. We can agree that she maybe should tread lightly so as not to fall out of favour with the party, but that doesn’t take from the fact that she gave a spineless response here and should be gunning to primary Schumer
Why do the victims always get the short end of the stick in these cases?
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Reddit@lemmy.world•Reddit's Ban Evasion Detection Is Fucking Orwellian
1·2 days agoDude my whole family got banned on Reddit when i got banned. It’s a shitty corporation.
What’s bro doing on a non-ml community?
Are the leftists in the room with us?

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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that states that voted for Donald Trump have a higher murder rate than states that didn't.English
7·6 days agoI think he should consider sending the national guard there🤔
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World News@lemmy.world•Millionaire CEO warns US economic situation could lead to revolutionEnglish
1·6 days agoIt will lead to civil war between the progressives that want to maintain the liberal order and conservatives who want to regress
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Out of the loop@lemmy.world•What's with the discussion around Sydney Sweeney and Conservatives?
2·7 days agoYeah it happened a while ago too, but discussions about it are popping up again. Not sure what’s going on
My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded, I… I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was… thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a “hit” on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can’t take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I… All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.
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News@lemmy.world•Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
31·9 days agoThis guy’s hardly as radical as Jeremy Corbyn. Americans continue to astound me













No worries friend👍