(April 15, 2018 at 7:30 am)Hammy Wrote:(April 11, 2018 at 11:20 pm)henryp Wrote: Does it ever give you pause that with all these events with an immense amount of variables you can't possibly know, you always confidently conclude the truth is a fairly extreme scenario that happens to line up with your political ideology?
And you're a Trumptard. Have you ever considered the fact that your Trumptardiness happens to line up perfectly with your own lack of intelligence?
I get your situation. You've got a house of cards you're trying to maintain based on a mildly hilarious combination of self-delusion and the idea that you're some sort of truth teller. And that's understandable. We all got to do what we got to do to get by, so you get a pass.
But I don't get why more generic people do it. It isn't an idea new to the forum. Why religious people believe stupid religious stuff is a pretty constant topic. They have the luxury of apologetics at least. Unknowns, God's will, and all sorts of workarounds. But with politics, it often ends up being undeniably correct/incorrect. Someone implies something like Obama is a muslim, or Hillary runs a sexy pizza shop, or Trump paid no taxes. And people believe it 100%. Then it's shown to be false, yet they jump into the next thing with the same confidence as the last.
What is it that keeps people from hesitating? Why is there no pattern recognition?
