A close family member angrily told me last night that my wife, children and I are no longer welcome around her and her children (and MY PARENTS!) until we are all fully vaccinated. She called us "selfish idiots". She interrupted every factual objection I attempted to raise about the vax with "Fauci says...."
I asked her if she had read Fauci's emails. HER: "What emails are you talking about?" ME: "The 1000+ released through a FOIA request several weeks ago." HER: "Oh, don't be ridiculous. Those emails were debunked." ME: "How so?" HER: click.
It is disgusting and heart breaking how the MSM has brainwashed the masses and caused mass psychosis and panic. Common sense and logic have been completely abandoned.
I have not encountered a single liberal or vax zealot that is willing or able to have an actual rational and fact based discussion on any topic that is counter to the narratives. I give up.
Well, one type of "fight or flight reaction" is the freeze response. The person shuts down and cannot fight. This is what you are seeing. Deep down, they probably know you are right, but they have no ammunition to fight, so they freeze and shut down. Feel sorry for them.
It's this and it's ego. Some folks just can not handle that they may have been lied to. Everything thinks they're smart enough to not get conned or taken advantage of.
Everyone believes what they believe is true and just. Finding out your entire belief system and WAY you are may be based on a lie is so much of an ego blow to people they can't handle it. They're very easy to find.
I don't "tell" anything when I attempt a red pill, I ask questions. I ask primer questions to confirm they agree on 'basics' or 'known facts'. I then ask questions that basically forces them to contradict the primer with their answers. Works every time.
They start getting mad / upset = you've hit the ego.
"Why are you getting mad? I"m just asking questions, you already know the answer to. If YOU get mad because I ask you questions, maybe the problem isn't with the one asking the question"
Reminds me of supervisors at work. When they accuse you of something, and you explain all the details of what and why you did it, they never say: "Yes, you are right. I'm sorry for accusing you".
MOST COMMON RESPONSE: SILENCE.
The ability to admit one is wrong is apparently a fucking superpower on the level of common sense...
Correct. I've even seen it referred to as the fight, flight, or freeze response.