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@Eegore,
There's the rub. It's not so much what other people think, it's more how do they come to the conclusions that they do, if you want to understand anything.
For example, there are a niche group of Christians who literally believe that the Earth is 6000 years old. But if we want to understand anything it's not that people believe that, it's how exactly are they able to come to that conclusion while at the same time blithely accepting the very same science that shows how that is impossible, in their everyday life with their electronic products.
Now to bring that back to the topics discussed on these boards, it's not so much what JoG, Sri, or Mn think, or the people who read the nut job sites they link to, you won't get any insight into how they think, you already know. The insight you want if you want any insight at all, is how do they formulate their opinion.
And to get an answer to that all you really need to do it watch as much Fox News, excerpts on youtube as you can stomach without throwing up. Because it's these people who drive the mainstream loony right, then of course there's the even more loony Brietbart or Q anon.
As you say people will want to hear what they want to hear, so if you delve deeper the insight you get is that people are fundamentally very unhappy and this unhappiness comes out as a hatred for the other. It's no different to how fascism works, paint human beings as 'the other' and tap into that primal fear. But fear is just a flavour of insecurity it's a vicious cycle.
You see it when srinath, routinely uses 'libtards' when not even referring to anyone in particular, just a general dehumanising of the other. It's a rational for their hatred. But because everyone knows that is wrong because they don't want to be dehumanised, so they have to justify it with more hatred. It never ends well.
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