{"id":282670,"date":"2018-09-28T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/28\/buchergenuss32-ampersandworm-bogleech\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:45:57","slug":"buchergenuss32-ampersandworm-bogleech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/28\/buchergenuss32-ampersandworm-bogleech\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another weird and frustrating phenomenon when you get sucked into an argument with conservative types (something I usually try to avoid bothering with anymore) is that there\u2019s this very narrow set of people they\u2019re convinced are key figures, even \u201cleaders\u201d on any given topic. Talk about climate change and they bring up Al Gore. Talk about women\u2019s rights and they bring up Anita Sarkeesian.<\/p>\n

To this day I have NO IDEA what any of those people have ever said on those topics, and in most cases, I never even heard of them outside of conservative complaints and memes. I would never know the name Anita Sarkeesian if she wasn\u2019t one random blogger out of thousands that an obscure niche of people went positively ballistic over. I\u2019ve never heard of anyone accepting the existence of global warming just because non-scientist Al Gore said to.<\/p>\n

If I tell them this they never believe it.<\/i> They\u2019re completely convinced that the beliefs they hate actually revolve around some random youtubers or B-list politicians they randomly elevated into their own bugbears and the idea that the people they fight hardest against actually have barely any influence or fame outside their own subculture seems almost impossible for them to accept.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

George Soros.<\/p>\n

I always see people saying George Soros pays people like me to protest (I wish), or buses people to vote on battleground states, some way or another he has us under our thrall.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know who the fuck George Soros IS<\/i><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even feel bothered to Google him and find out- he\u2019s utterly irrelevant to my life. But apparently all liberals are on his payroll somehow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I, too, never heard of George Soros before just recently.<\/p>\n

They could make up absolutely any name in these arguments and it would have just as much meaning to me. \u201cYou\u2019re only pro-vaccine because you\u2019re shilling for Jiminy Ferpendoodle!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve heard this referred to as the central fallacy of the authoritarian mindset: It\u2019s not that authoritarians don\u2019t care about facts, it\u2019s that facts aren\u2019t real until they are confirmed by an Authority.<\/b> Of course no liberal believed in Global Warming until Al Gore said so! Why would they believe it, until Someone In Charge<\/i> said it? And moreover, if you can prove That Person Isn\u2019t Really An Authority<\/i>, the facts will change! See also:<\/p>\n