What many a leftie thinks they see
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his mistake was linking any sort of news article. The only chance you have is to go directly to the source, sometime demonstrating and doing the math if applicable.
For instance, in an EV conversation I had, I pulled numbers directly from the EPA's website on how much batteries weigh, how much energy they store, and the comparisons to a 10 gallon tank of gas. Long story short: EVS are nearly twice as heavy as gas cars with less than half the energy storage capacity. with this, I was able to convince some drones that hybrids are a much better direction than full electric vehicles. (fun fact: in terms of pure energy efficiency electric motors are more than twice as efficient than gas engines, the problem is that they're pulling twice the weight with less than half the energy storage capacity)
The moment you link and article from some kind of unapproved source (in their eyes), they instantly disregard your opinion and counter with articles from their """approved""" sources. They literally do not think themselves smart enough to analyze any kind of data, so they use appeal to authority. If you can show them the data, walk them through it, in simultaneously teach them that they can analyze data and think for themselves, you can break the conditioning.
this only works on a small percentage of people since the NPC programming is very strong, but it does work occasionally.
So true. I recently had some guy tell me that decisions should be made by "people smarter than us", to which I countered "if they're smarter than us, they should be able to explain it to us so we can decide".
Ironically, he was protesting parental rights in schools. So, if the schools are doing such a great job because they're "smarter" than parents, why aren't we (the graduates of these programs) smart enough to understand anything?
Literally, what is the point of mass education, which these people seem to favour, if only a handful will ever be "experts"?