• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Oh it’s definitely similar to a disease. It attacks the area of the brain that sources intelligence and common sense.

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      28 days ago

      I’ve been calling it a mental illness for at least a decade. I suspect that a constant exposure to disinformation induces a state similar to narcissism, with severe empathetic impairment, but there is a clear corruption to their logic and how they process information, as evidenced by the constant double-think — holding contradictory beliefs and opinions simultaneously — and defaulting to negative/positive opinions about anything based almost entirely on logical fallacies, and a child-like reasoning of “goodies and baddies”.

      “my abortion was different”

      “won’t someone think of the children” but also let em starve and die in a mass shooting.

      “Trans and gays are pedophiles” but also my teams pedos and sex criminals have my undying support.

      There are literally thousands of examples like this daily. I consider religion — which teaches you to trust your feefees, “just have faith”, and reject critical thought — to be the main source of this logical corruption and mental illness.

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        28 days ago

        Fox News has been spreading this disease since 2000 (and the crazy right wing talk radio even longer).

        This is a much deeper and longer problem than many want to admit.

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      29 days ago

      I feel like common sense is more a standard mental immune system function that helps prevent the infection from taking hold. These are susceptible populations, though, essentially immunocompromised.

      So, I suppose we need to take some MAGA, weaken it with formaldehyde or something, and then inject that into people’s brains to give the brain a chance to fight back before it gets overwhelmed.

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        So, I suppose we need to take some MAGA, weaken it with formaldehyde or something, and then inject that into people’s brains to give the brain a chance to fight back before it gets overwhelmed.

        I’ve been trying to convince anti-vaxxers that it isn’t the medicine, but the micro plastics that are causing all the “new diseases” and being able to diagnose more autistic kids. I would rather them believe that it is caused by plastics and not medicine. I think being anti-plastic is better than anti-vax.