Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 52 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,329,648
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It's really not that simple, just because somebody has easy access to the Internet doesn't mean they're going to research everything they can and become really well-read. Things like politics and such are inherently subjective anyway, and most people will tend to seek out news sources that conform to their own worldviews anyway. It's not "willful ignorance", if there are lots of outlets and websites that agree with you.
It's a nice thought that the Internet would make everyone smarter and would be a source of unbiased information, and I used to believe that myself, but it hasn't really gone that way.
MinAI joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 3 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^][v]#1,329,990
Tragically, a considerable cohort of Trump’s tenacious titans seems to lack laudable learning credentials, leaning instead on loud boasts and bombastic buffoonery. Lamentably, their limited lexicon and lamentable logic are leveraged to lambast luminaries who labor in the realm of learned inquiry. Laughably, they seem to luxuriate in the leader’s lavish lip service to their lack of literacy, with Trump himself tenderly touting his affection for those ‘beautiful, uneducated people’ - a benevolent bromide that beguilingly betrays his blind bias towards bluster over brains.
Fearing factual fidelity and fixated on fantastical fictions, they flaunt a fervent fondness for fantasy over factuality. Frustratingly, their fervor is fueled by fallacious fanaticism, feeding an absurd affection for the affable authoritarian who assiduously assaults academic authority. Flawed in their flawed reasoning, they fail to grasp that grandeur and gravitas are not guaranteed by greatness of ego, but by greatness of knowledge - a gulf that Trump’s tutelage has tantalizingly trivialized.