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Conservative parent is sad his daughters aren't coming for thanksgiving after voting for Trump (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's both, and not a contradiction? But I'd say the USA is indeed more progressed with this. Like both sides. They got really intelligent people but a lot of dumb people. Compared to other western societies, more, the toll of slowly erroding education and the split between poor and rich is progressing harder. Same with things like obesity which as we know of research is bad for brain development (rather the food that leads to this).

[–] refalo -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes I think intelligence is a spectrum and that neither side is more "correct" than the other.

I think there's good and bad ideas from both sides depending on your perspective, and we have to concede that nobody has all the answers, and that we don't know what we don't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably... For me it's more about the things that should be obvious, like burning fossil-fuels will extremely likely lead us in a worse state. But it seems that a big percentage of the western population doesn't want to believe facts and logical reasoning anymore and I think this is a very dangerous thing, as we have seen in 1920-1945.

[–] refalo 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it's somewhat funny (if nature wouldn't play a big part this time) that history repeats again and again (Reagan I think was one of the sparks of this disinformation crisis due to promoting this kind of late-stage-capitalism that optimized manipulation). Although we have this vast access to information, but I guess it doesn't help, if you're not able to tell (due to reasons discussed) between facts and lies anymore.