I consider myself to be in prehab.

Part of me thinks why the hell is that our responsibility and the other part thinks oh yeah because they won’t do it on their own.

“classically studied journalist,”

I’ve found it’s helpful to start small, and always in a non-confrontational manner. There’s actually sound neuroscience behind this- if people feel attacked, they go into fight or flight mode and just shut down. So go small and go calm. When I’m done doing that, I like to say, “Well, it’s something to think about,”…

It’snot petty. It’s on point. Why bother with makeup under the pretense of appearing reputable but it’s all jacked up.

My opinion as someone studying (christian) theology: No.

I like to call it the melted doll look.

Is classically studied journalist, same as classically trained pianist ??

Damn, and they say (black people/Asians/insert minority here) look alike!

Cue the “That’s just your opinion, maaaan” gifs. Maaan.

What can be done to combat this kind of thinking? I have immediate family members that just flatly refuse to grapple with facts-- when they’re confronted with them, they just say, “I don’t believe that”. It feels like democracy hangs on us figuring out a way to bring these people back into the realm of reality, but I…

Same. Throw in the effect of conservatives sharing “dank memes” about snowflake liberals or Hillary’s breathing machine/alien spit/omg whatever and I basically want to blame Zuckerberg for the entire thing.

What I started doing with my brother, who never met an insane conspiracy theory he didn’t love, is just leaning way in to it and agreeing with him until the premise looks ridiculous.

The same people you hear that refrain from, “because this is where we’ve always lived and why should we move or do something so that we can make money, they just need to bring the jobs back” are the same ones who say people in countries with famine and drought should just up and move someplace else.

It’s still kinda strange to me that in an election against neo-Nazis and people reading fake news that we kinda won, that the take away was for liberals to be more caring and for us to get out of our bubbles.

I’ve never hated facebook more than I have after the election.

I’m super fed up with facts not mattering. That everyone deserves their own opinion even when it’s counter to reality. All you have to do is google what you want to know, there’s a crack-pot for every lid. Experts are denigrated for being ‘elite’ instead of being appreciated for their knowledge and hard work.

Not to get all tinfoil hat-y, but you can pretty much blame a good chunk of this election result on Facebook and the spread of fake news. People spot “news” that agrees with their own beliefs and biases and immediately accept it as legitimate. Angry, old white people seem incapable of spotting fake news.