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Re:Peter Thiel Is Exploring the Creation of a Conservative C... by QAPereo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:01PM (#16071899)
You still require an audience which understands you, believes you... otherwise you do what you just said for vaccines, and you still get anti-vaxxers. Besides. 90%+ of your audience just flipped to the channels which tell them what they want to hear.
Re:Peter Thiel Is Exploring the Creation of a Conservative C... by whatshisface on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:38PM (#16072224)
The tools that we could use to get the "uninterested" to believe the truth work equally well for falsities, and are usually used to spread beliefs of convienience. If those tools were just sent down entirely, you'd be left with "right" and "random," and the random would always average out at the polls. Sadly, in our present world stupid is dangerous because machiavellians and martyrs alike are magnetizing it with arguments that are as wrong as they are emotionally convincing.
Re:Peter Thiel Is Exploring the Creation of a Conservative C... by QAPereo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:48PM (#16072315)
Sadly, in our present world stupid is dangerous because machiavellians and martyrs alike are magnetizing it with arguments that are as wrong as they are emotionally convincing.

I don’t usually do this here, as it’s not strictly substantive, but damn that’s a concise and lovely way of putting it.