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hardcore leftist ideology (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Reminds me of creationist textbooks trying to teach about electricity.

Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it. We can see and hear and feel only what electricity does. We know that it makes light bulbs shine and irons heat up and telephones ring. But we cannot say what electricity itself is like. We cannot even say where electricity comes from. Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity. Others think that the movement of the earth produces some of it. All anyone knows is that electricity seems to be everywhere and that there are many ways to bring it forth.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What kind of an ego do you have to have to think you know everything about science, so you write a textbook, and when you get to electricity, you don't know anything about it, but since you know everything about everything, if you don't know anything about electricity, that means nobody else does, either?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Sweet baby Jesus

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's the problem, they can believe in Jesus, but not electricity.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If that’s real I assume it’s less that they don’t believe in electricity or even that they don’t understand it. Probably more “portray difficult concepts as magical so that the idea of blind faith isn’t so difficult to digest” kind of intellectual dishonesty

    That’s if it’s real though and not a nonsense meme to generate outrage. Highly sus that a book title isn’t mentioned

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

    Pretty sure anyone who's ever grabbed a live wire has felt electricity. I guess you could argue you're still only feeling what it does, but that's like arguing you only feel what a punch in the face does...

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