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Customers are furious with Sticker Mule’s pro-Trump mass SMS blast
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I don't think ignorance is much of an excuse in the US in 2024. You can just go read wikipedia and its sources.
At this point for anyone older than like 15 it's willful. It's a willful desire to stay in the comfort of your in-group rather than deal with the negative feelings that come from "Are we the baddies?"
I think you underestimate HOW prominently the idea “every other media is maliciously lying to you” features in conservative media
Ignorance is not (just) lack of notions, it is lack of method, it is not having the tools to analyze the notions. You don't learn that on Wikipedia.
It was very upsetting to me and at the same time very enlightening when I had a long argument with a Trump supporter and realized he literally didn’t have the critical thinking tools to even analyze a source, see if it had self-contradictions, compare what it was saying against verifiable things and see if it was trustworthy. For him it was either “this thing is gospel” or else “everything is chaos and nothing is true and the world is a maelstrom of hopeless lies,” and he was choosing option A.