As I just got through posting elsewhere: once you get people believing conspiracy theories, then any reversal just comes off as if they got to you, too.
That’s why you shouldn’t try to leverage conspiracies for political purposes. You lose control.
The evidence is against you, so you push your followers to ignore evidence. Be careful what you wish for.
The beef I have with him and other “leaders” is precisely the feeble attempts at confronting colleagues and right wing media influencers about that dopey attitude.
I thought maybe he got bitten by a radioactive turtle.
Too bad Sean Halfwitty couldn’t stick to a decent principal for once in his sorry life. Guess you can’t embrace science even a tiny bit without the MAGAbots forcing you back in line.
Crimestop refers to the ability to stop short of any thought that might be heretical or unorthodox before it is even thought, as if by instinct.
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Crimestop is not stupidity, or at least not natural stupidity. It is the ability to deliberately retard one’s own intelligence, and, of course, to forget the process of doing it by doublethink.
(Orwell referred to it as “protective stupidity,” which does not entirely conflict with the above.)
Looking at the way the right wing media works nowadays, it is more clear to me that Hannity and others just posted enough “I agree with science too!” platitudes to fool a lot of moderates in other media outlets and Plutocrat Peters into falling for the narrative of “they are finally changing for the better!, let’s listen to them or fund them again”. After they got that result from mainstream media, they go back to the usual denying science or the criticism of it with wild theories.
It is a tactic that explains also how in heaven’s name we get people that follow right wing media to look at the few admissions of vaccines working and think that everything is ok, while ignoring the hurricane of lies that the right wing media is also launching at the same time.