And 90% of the replies are people going “cuz they are dumb and bad!” and maybe like three guys heavily downvoted at the bottom trying to provide an actual explanation.

Not saying we NEVER get posts like that here. But the whole practice of making posts like these weekly/daily/hourly just screams insecurity to me. I feel like us HexBear commies are all pretty aware of why our opponents don’t agree with us and don’t need daily session of us all collectively reminding each other.

Edit: typo

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s lack of materialism. Liberals think that politics is a matter of knowledge vs. ignorance, and that if anyone disagrees with them, they simply don’t have all the facts or are too stupid to understand them. If someone in the Global South is unhappy about the American boot stomping them into the dirt, then satisfying them is (or rather, should be) a mere matter of showing them the graphs proving that them getting stomped is objectively the best policy. Libs rarely understand that above all, people want systems to benefit them rather than hurt them, and when they do understand it, they see it as a personal failing to be corrected.