It is essential to conservatism that people not challenge beliefs. It’s why they tend to be so much more compatible with organized religion than liberals.

I think some of them know they are hypocrites and the rest are incapable of seeing this fault in themselves.  It’s cognitive dissonance on a massive scale.  It’s just not “cancel culture” to them unless it’s cancelling THEIR culture.  This goes along with the complete lack of empathy required to be a conservative. …

You’re right about education, but America has not forgotten. If anything, conservatives are more aware than anybody the power education has to challenge fixed beliefs.

My Model 3 does this all the time. It’s not activating the brakes yet, but the alarm comes on for a car turning off the road in front of me.

This White guy sounds like a real Buckhead.

Generally, I assume MOST of the GOP politicians know they are full of shit. But they also know how stupid and easily lead their voters are.  Cruz is a lawyer, at least, and definitely knows the First Amendment doesn’t apply to private companies moderating online content.  Paul probably knows as well.

They seem to equate science and politics, basically, which makes them believe not just that science can be questioned (which is true) but that it can be questioned by just any asshole with an opinion (which isn’t). Science can be questioned and overturned by better science.

These fucking wingnuts... they grab onto a half truth like a dog with a bone. They KNOW science can be questioned and should be questioned because that’s how science works. But they don’t understand (or don’t want to understand) that science can only be questioned by better science.

I wouldn’t say the reboot was a masterpiece. Its most egregious flaw is the way they lamely tried to justify calling it “Tomb Raider” by tossing in a few one-room optional tombs to “raid”. The mysterious island setting was just begging to be riddled with old catacombs and ancient puzzles but instead it just becomes…

No, not the death scenes. Those are still there if you mess up. It’s that the game has less weird incongruities like the serious wound Lara suffers at the start of the first game but somehow doesn’t need to treat until much later. There’s also things like her reaction to killing her first bad guy or being squeamish…

Agreed. It’s one of those words that should just go die. Nothing is actually overrated or underrated when we’re speaking of subjective opinions. Things are just rated.

It’s another lie about the 2020 election that we can file away in the case closed drawer.

He did claim credit earlier. He’s always claimed it was his administration that “got the vaccine”. Which is why it was always weird to me that his followers ended up so anti-vax. It’s been known he and Melania, at least, were vaccinated.

We should let Texas and the South leave. Then move all the MAGAs into the new “ChRiStIaN” nation and get all of the progressives and BIPOC people out.

I felt like we dodged a bullet last election and then again on January 6th.

it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument

“YOUR SISTER FUCKING DIED OF THIS. WHAT SIDE EFFECT COULD BE WORSE?!!”

Trump was quite the revelation for most of them, I think. Because they DID once try those mental gymnastics. We used to call it “spin” what they did to the truth. All that time, it turns out, they were working too hard. Trump comes along and everyone in politics laughs at him because he just said the craziest shit 24/7…

If Conservative politicians know anything at all, it’s that their voters wouldn’t know a logical inconsistency if it smacked them in the face.  They can say anything they want.  Conservatism is about following the leader... not thinking.

No way that would ever happen. The paying personally thing, I mean. The only recourse is that taxpayers, all of us unfortunately, get to pay. Thus only if voters get angry enough at paying to vote the bastards out, would there be any justice.