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1. Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 18:41:34 JST Matthew Sheffield

   🧵 The unique danger of fascism is that its irrationality cannot be defeated rationally.

   Fact checks and policy comparisons are useless because accuracy and sound thinking are secondary goods to most people

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 18:41:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bob Mottram :debian:

     @mattsheffield @bob Ah, thank goodness we haven’t built our societies to respect irrationality, teach it in schools, and, in some places, even legally protect it from criticism … oh, wait.

     “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire