• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Idk, if it was so plainly “false” and “uneducated” then it seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to provide a refutation of, especially since these are criticisms that even several liberal economists have been making for decades, e.g. “assume a can-opener” discourse.

      And he is talking about axioms, so you don’t even need to worry about correctly notating your fancylad mathematics.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      Hear that @Civility@hexbear.net? I’ve been a bad boy! Come frown at me for hurting the widdle wiberals feelings. He was just using elitism to disparage his interlocutors and maintain a worldview that harms people every day! Why did I have to go and be so uncivil! Whoa is me.

      Classic liberal. When confronted with arguments you don’t understand or have a retort to, you pearl clutch and complain about tone.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Nah, Libs are like this everywhere. The self righteousness, the aggressive ignorance, the near absolutely inability to recognize their own limitations, the incuriousness. I think it’s mostly a consequence of living in a hegemonic cultural and media environment where they never encounter any meaningful challenges to their world view. Liberalism is all they know, and the only thing outside of it that they even casually encounter is fascism through the lens of Lib media venues, so they’re just completely unprepared to critique their own beliefs or situation.