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Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More
SharpFang writes "In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that misinformed people, particularly political partisans, rarely changed their minds when exposed to corrected facts in news stories. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger."
A Faux News commentator said "Well what would you EXPECT from a bunch of social scientists in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor?"
Obi-Wan: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were sudden
Andy why Obama got elected
Notice how all of the fascist, unconstitutional and Anti-American policies that Bush and Cheney implemented (and should have legitimately resulted in impeachment and at least life sentences in prison ) are still in effect?
Nothing has changed, therefore conservative.
Obama is a conservative, not a liberal.
We have a far right wing fascist party and a moderate right wing fascist party.
Nonsense. He's a not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. He's an incompetent liberal. And you sound like a snotty child. "No, Daddy, it's not ice cream! Only chocolate is ice cream. It's vanilla, thus, it's liver. I want my ice cream!".
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Unlike you, I, lacking your spectacularly over-sized ego, have no trouble getting through doors. Try again.
Right, particularly theoretical math or love affairs. You are a religious zealot who, as religious zealots usually do, tries to ignore all the inconvenient facts in a desperate attempt to make the world fit your religion. Thus in your - like all other "free market" converts - view, everything must revolve around greed. Any human activity not motivated by an insane avarice is therefore to be denied, because, you know, "every single thing is a subject to the rules of the marketplace".
There is no relationship whatsoever between thermodynamics and markets. You have to be a particularly deluded religious lunatic of the "free market" religion to believe such nonsense. There is some vague, very large scale, resemblance between all high-order chaotic systems, due to the general rules of chaotic systems, but these remote similarities disappear upon any closer examination.
Reagan....Signed largest tax increase ever
Which still didn't offset the tax cuts he have to the upper income brackets. What Reagan did was criminal. He took part of the tax burden away from the wealthy and when, due to those tax cuts, the government was on the brink of going broke two years later, he handed the burden to the middle and lower middle classes in the form of increased payroll and gasoline taxes.
Reagan can rot in hell, and anyone who thinks Obama's economic policies are even close to what Reagan's were is misinformed.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
You are the stupid one, where was anything said about economy being a closed system?
The thermodynamic laws work fine, the economy is not a closed system, new inventions for example, new discoveries or improvements create new economic niches. The system is closed by the boundaries of accessible world, and it is bigger than this planet.
The important law to understand is that if a system A is in balance with system C and system B is in balance with system C then system A and B are in balance with each other. That's the one we try to fight all the time with all our laws and paper printing and all artificial stimuli.
Think before you type.
You can't handle the truth.
In my view Hitler had started the road to WW2 probably by 1935 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland were the final straw.
Yes, this is where we get into "truth".
Now put yourself into the shoes of a man who took a bankrupt nation - bankrupt in terms of economics, and bankrupt in terms of pride. Germany lost World War One because of treachery at home - troop mutinies on the front lines, and Marxist revolutions in the towns. Germans felt that they could have won the first world war - or at least returned to status quo - their troops were still outside their borders when the armistice was signed. This was the final betrayal - their own government not only gave up their gains but gave up traditionally German territories and towns and sold the future of the German people into economic slavery in the form of war reparations.
This is your background. You take this country and you raise it up. You defy those that would have enslaved you, you give the people a sense of pride again, and you begin to claim what was rightfully yours a generation ago. And the allies give it to you - time and time again. Sometimes you need a ruse. Sometimes you just have to ask. And sometimes you take it, but you keep getting away with it.
Why would you stop? I am positive that the German government was absolutely surprised when Britain and France declared war on them when they invaded Poland. I am also positive that Germany was stunned when Britain refused peace when it was later offered.
It's easy nowadays to vilify and demonize. However it takes two to fight a war. Britain was just as instrumental in bringing about World War 2 as Germany was. The question the Germans dared to ask was "how come only Britain and France get to have an Empire?"
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Europeans still have a lot of the old feudal influences left in their culture. And one of the biggest holdovers from that era is "Don't question your betters."
Those of "common decent" are far more willing to be told what to do than to try and take the lead themselves. Makes Europe easier to organize, for both good and bad.