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Aussie105

(5,463 posts)
20. Emotive thinkers versus rational thinkers.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 03:08 AM
Feb 2020

Dear leader says 'hoax' and you accept it, because it feels good on an emotional level. You are in tune with the Universe, Trump smiles on you and approves, so hoax it is.

Some people might question and examine the logic and rationale behind the hoax label, and find it's an outright lie.

But if you are an emotional thinker, you need to stay away from the rational thinkers, because they mean you harm and disrespect Dear Leader, who is infallible. He said so, after all.

Never argue with an emotional thinker. He/she is immune to any appeal to logic and rational thought. And he/she may react in anger and do some violence. Emotions after all are his/her strong point, self control and rational thinking are not.

Learnt the latter from my visiting American sister in law. Asked why she decided she could not vote for Hillary, and only emotive statements came forth. Judgmental, negative emotions, with no logic to support them. The emotions were facts in their own right, no support needed.

Emotions are strong things, and remembered long after the chain of thinking that led to them has long faded.
Ask people if O.J. Simpson was guilty or not, and they will answer you instantly.
Ask them for details of the case, and they won't remember much. Ask them how they arrived at their guilty/not guilty conclusion, and they will be unable to answer.

some hoax/ TRUMP'S RUSSIA COVER-UP BY THE NUMBERS - 272 CONTACTS WITH RUSSIA-LINKED OPERATIVES Botany Feb 2020 #1
Blind men standing around an elephant... kentuck Feb 2020 #15
Wide open and seeing the elephant Botany Feb 2020 #16
THAT'S ALL DEEP STATE FAKE NOOZ!!! (nt) mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #2
Right! It didn't happen. kentuck Feb 2020 #3
Now you're catching on! (nt) mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #4
But we should not run from the facts or the truth... kentuck Feb 2020 #5
Trump's Post Truth Universe Of Alternative "Facts" eniwetok Feb 2020 #6
If Trump was Pinnochio, his nose would stretch across the Brooklyn Bridge. kentuck Feb 2020 #7
It's f***ing SURREAL, it really is ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #9
They rarely see the facts kentuck Caliman73 Feb 2020 #8
You are correct, of course. kentuck Feb 2020 #10
That is one of my biggest frustrations with my party. Caliman73 Feb 2020 #13
Facts and truth bdamomma Feb 2020 #11
But we can't let them mean nothing to us. kentuck Feb 2020 #12
We are too aware bdamomma Feb 2020 #14
Once the other side owns the media, actual facts have little impact FiveGoodMen Feb 2020 #17
Deprogramming cultists is best The Wizard Feb 2020 #18
We Have Had Non-Stop Trump On The Airwaves DallasNE Feb 2020 #19
Emotive thinkers versus rational thinkers. Aussie105 Feb 2020 #20
It is a hoax on the Scarsdale Feb 2020 #21
THEY KNOW IT'S NOT A HOAX---THEY DON'T CARE!! blakstoneranger Feb 2020 #22
The Mueller Report says otherwise Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2020 #23
Because Fox News and Trump said so. Flaleftist Feb 2020 #24
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