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If the right wing latches onto an idea, does that prove the idea is false?
by droopyEyelids 3y ago
If the right wing latches onto an idea, does that prove the idea is false?
- dghughes 3y ago[flagged]
- Vecr 3y agoWhat? Even allowing that all those nines are hyperbolic, at various points in time it was reasonably popular for "right wing" people to be concerned about defending from Russia and biological preparedness. The past few years have shown those to be more than mirages.
- actionfromafar 3y agoOTOH they are switching tunes now that Russia is actually warring. Now they are starting to both-sides Russia.
- fundad 3y agoIn practice the right treated both as hoaxes.
- Vecr 3y agoI don't think so, you can find quotes where George W. Bush showed a reasonably good understanding of Influenza pandemics, and Mitt Romney called Russia "without question, our No. 1 geopolitical foe".
- dghughes 3y agoI wouldn't call right-wing reasonable it is quite different than Conservative/Republican. Right-wing is the wildly unreasonable distance cousin of Conservatism. I have no problem with political Conservatism I've even voted for my local and federal politicians a few times and other times Liberal political parties. And yes the same applies to the political Left. I like to consider myself politically Centrist as best as I can.
- fundad 3y agoThat's how credibility works for everyone else, no special treatment