I HOPE BUD FUCKING DIES BECAUSE THEY STOLE THAT NAME FROM MY COUNTRY AND THEY SULLY ITS NAME BY MAKING PISSWATER

No but seriously. I don't have an answer to your first question, but the second one - yes, absolutely. The Bud fiasco itself is a perfect example. I can guarantee you that the horse-faced bitch who came up with it doesn't know a single person who drinks the shit she was in charge of marketing. There was noone in her insulated bubble of "cool wine aunts" who could tell her to stop. And the same principle applies all across the board. It's incredible. Personally, I like to expose myself to libs' talking points, but they can't do the same, they can't read Zerohedge or Unherd or whatever - because their belief systems fall apart the very moment they're confronted with reality, and the cognitive dissonance is painful to them. I guess.

The sad thing is, some of my friends are highly educated and genuinely smart people, but a part of being smart and educated and "worldly" around here is that you've gotta read shit like the NYT and WaPo and The Grauniad and the BBC, and absolutely no counter-narrative media. So they read that garbage, and they unironically accept what these terrible rags tell them, no matter how many times I show them it's bullshit. I've had arguments with them where I actually managed to convince them that something they considered to be true was bullshit - but then a few days later they're back to their original beliefs. It's so frustrating.

I HOPE BUD FUCKING DIES BECAUSE THEY STOLE THAT NAME FROM MY COUNTRY AND THEY SULLY ITS NAME BY MAKING PISSWATER

No but seriously. I don't have an answer to your first question, but the second one - yes, absolutely. The Bud fiasco itself is a perfect example. I can guarantee you that the horse-faced bitch who came up with it doesn't know a single person who drinks the shit she was in charge of marketing. There was noone in her insulated bubble of "cool wine aunts" who could tell her to stop. And the same principle applies all across the board. It's incredible. Personally, I like to expose myself to libs' talking points, but they can't do the same, they can't read Zerohedge or Unherd or whatever - because their belief systems fall apart the very moment they're confronted with reality, and the cognitive dissonance is painful to them. I guess.

The sad thing is, some of my friends are highly educated and genuinely smart people, but a part of being smart and educated and "worldly" around here is that you've gotta read shit like the NYT and WaPo and The Grauniad and the BBC, and absolutely no counter-narrative media. So they read that garbage, and they unironically accept what these terrible rags tell them, no matter how many times I show them it's bullshit. I've had arguments with them where I actually managed to convinced them that something they considered to be true was bullshit - but then a few days later they're back to their original beliefs. It's so frustrating.