I have an acquaintance who is a hard core socialist. Our discussions never derail and we become enemies but we agree that we can never agree. However, she has helped me understand how a socialist thinks.
When a situation arises where a socialist reasoning fails, they choose to refrain from acknowledging the fact. Most often she dismisses the whole thing with quote "I haven't read about it" unquote and then indirectly means that it never happened.
This summer I was prepared for her to resort to her usual excuse and had several different reliable sources, one of which is the media she herself chooses to get information from.
She read the article and first said my factual part was incorrect and referred to the article she had just read. She interpret the article in her favor only until I pointed out her misinterpretation of certain words. Whether her misinterpretation was deliberate or not, I actually don't know. Then she became silent.
We are still acquaintances and have hung out several times. However, I avoid talking politics with her, I have realized that it is not possible to objectively or honestly discuss certain things with a certain type of people.
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