Empirical evidence wins out in the end but… it’s not that simple. One name said a lot about this : Thomas Kuhn. Try giving The structure of scientific revolutions a read whenever you can. It’s old and there are more contemporary work, but Kuhn is still a reference in epistemology.

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Alternatively, people may think they’re expressing “criticism” while just being blunt and cruel. Criticism doesn’t mean belittling someone.

And I know too much about this, as a teacher. Some of my colleagues wish they were little tyrants…

While I agree the issue is complex and everything is not about troopers being inherently mean and brutal, sometimes, one also has to name things plainly.

Hence, ACAB. CQFD.

How odd. A country elects a fascist who then behaves like a fascist.

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I’m in the same bot and I couldn’t have put it better!

Sir/Madam, you win the “post of the day” award!

This. This is the kind of content this godforsaken world needs.

Isn’t that a specially engineered breed of cats, made to have those small “cute little legs”. If so, that’s horrible and shaming.

Hello fellow 38yo non-conservative person!

An old meme, but it checks out [insert you know which image]

P.S. : I wrote a detailed thread about this here : https://lemmy.world/post/2739891

Yes, but there’s such thing as a class war.

Extra fine meme, thank you OP !

Although I’m not totally satisfied with what I wrote. I may write a new thread about all this whenever I have time to think about it better.

Hmm. If I meet people who are deeply anti religious, I prefer them to show hatred equally to all of them. So I know there’s no ethno-cultural aspect to their hatred and it’s strictly philosophical. I also understand specific reject based on life experiences.

Overall, I feel better around people who are at least a little open to understanding some people want to believe, even if they hate the religious institutions (as I do) in something and not necessarily belittling religion as a practice, a faith, a way of life. But I deeply resent people who aggressively tried to convert me to their religion. And I’d never try to make someone who believes an atheist. I wouldn’t feel superior or more enlightened than a believer and I’d expect the same in return.

Didn’t read past the second line, but fyi, I know there are former muslims. My mom is one of them. I should have written more carefully “except former muslims, obviously”.

The overwhelming majority of Islam focused critics, at least in western countries ? Culturo-fascists and white supremacists.

But don’t forget the upvote !