It's not just that people aren't applying rational thinking, it's that they don't *want* to. They actively gravitate to people & ideologies who give them permission not to.

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I used to think, if we could get everyone to see the *patterns* in reactionary lies & manipulations, the way they're always the same, we'd be better at guarding against them. But I've lost that faith. On some level people *want* to shut their frontal cortexes down & wallow in monkey-brain shit.

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The violence we still refuse to name - Ronni Salt "What Albanese signals to Australian men with his endless happy snaps with Trump, is that treating women like dirt is just fine, that hanging around with rapists is a good thing because, well, because." theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

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“The truth is that the present-day Labor Party is no friend of the environment; the best it can claim is that it is a little bit less of an enemy to the environment than the Coalition or One Nation.” trib.al/gdyPh8Y

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💯the point is to put the onus of safety on the individual so that traffic engineers can continue prioritizing traffic flow over safety

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