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More infuriating when wanting proof is treated as a bad thing...not supportive towards any party, but i’ve seen people on here post bs info on trump, and get super offended when they are asked for sources. Like they’re angry because a person decides not to join in their hate, and automatically take their bs as truth.
Comment by aciananas at 16/08/2020 at 19:08 UTC
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I see that quite often from Trump supporters, too. When you don't accept blind worship of Trump or blind hate of the other, they don't even have credible sources to offer so they get angry instead. It's like Trump's, "you know what [Obama] did." There is a plethora of information available on why Trump is awful. You'd have to be totally uninformed or willfully ignorant not to see it, so I can see why that would be particularly frustrating.
Still, even when I agree or believe something, I like to read the sources to learn more and understand it better. I find a lot of people make statements and I initially believe them so I genuinely ask for sources to learn more about what they said (because it's usually a shocking claim and I want to know how something like that could happen) and then they get mad because I'm not taking them at their word and they get frustrated because they actually can't provide a source. So I look for my own and there either are none or it's from one non credible source. Then they get mad because I looked it up and proved them wrong. They think I'm out to make them look like an idiot or a liar. Am I supposed to just let them go on believe and spread lies so they can avoid a moment of embarrassment? And these are typically supposed friends I'm in group chats with, not just every random acquaintance on my Facebook feed or something. I don't understand how someone can be angry with me for figuring out that they lied to me, even if they didn't do it intentionally.