Sometimes I’ll just be like ‘you’re not a high school social studies teacher, you don’t need a works cited page. Either believe it or not.’ Other times I’ll point out their pattern of behavior and argument strategy before they even get to the final stage, where they say since it didn’t come from a reputable source it doesn’t count. They don’t seem to grasp all of their beliefs are being influenced by propaganda sources so of course any real news will seem strange to them. They’re interesting creatures.
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Have you noticed that despite the establishment telling them the mask doesn't protect the wearer people put it on because they think it protects them?
Bunch of poor dumb cowards :/
Because they flat out will acknowledge "The only said that so enough PPE could be bought up for health professionals!!"
To which I always retort "So, essentially, you acknowledge that they will flat out lie to you in order to elicit a specific response from you. i.e. they will tell you what they need to in order to achieve their objective"
Cue the head explosions, ad hom, dismissal, accusations of apathy and even complicity in murder, etc...
EDIT: Upon further rebuttal and mentioning of science, they will, without any sense of what they're saying, screech that science changes and the policy is based on what we (they always say WE as if they have any part in any of the knowledge or decisions. They like to lump their blind acceptance and acquiescence in as part of the actual decisions being made) know NOW. Ignoring the fact that the science behind viral transmission has not in fact changed instantly in the past 5 months in the face of the consensus of the past 50 years on masks and their efficacy.
Yep; I got exactly that response.
I think it comes from the fact that this is just how life is for humans for the first ~22 or so years. Age 0-6, your parents are your educators. They seem to know everything, and they teach you everything you know. K-12 it is similar, now your teachers are the experts and everything they tell you is fact. Then you get to college, and you have experts in every field and everything they tell you is fact and you learn it.
Adulthood comes, and all of a sudden there really arent any experts anymore. Sure, there may be organizations and government officials who can be said to be experts, but can they always be trusted? Certain people trust these officials because they have been programmed for their entire lives to trust the experts.
Yeah I know it's frustrating af