QT The illogic of the left

[NotAllThere]

Point out in Private Eye. This letter to the Grauniad protesting the invitation to the Egyptian President to visit the UK.

Signatories include Andy Murray (Unite chief of staff) who praised Stalin's record, and supports solidarity with with People's Korea (i.e. North Korea).

[SpontaneousOrder]

Was watching question time last night and I should not have been surprised, but I still was. How can someone hold two diametrically opposed thoughts in their head at the same time.
Paris Lees was talking about the NHS funding crisis and made the point that it was set up after the war when the country was on it's knees and very poor.
Later on, Paris Lees was commenting on International aid (foreign aid), she said we could afford it because we are rich 'due to our colonial asset stripping'

Is there a special course that lefties have to go on, or some sort of lobotmisation process they have to go through ?

If colonial asset stripping were profitable, for a nation, we'd have been doing it a bit longer i think.

[NotAllThere]

Ah but isn't that the definition of intelligence: being able to hold two conflicting views without going completely insane....

No. It's doubleplusthinkgood.

[MicrosoftBob]

Ah but isn't that the definition of intelligence: being able to hold two conflicting views without going completely insane. Like having tea and no tea at the same time.

So all lefties are geniuses because they can spout tulip

[VectraMan]

Well, not quite. Google says that the 'dissonance' is the stress caused by holing these conflicting views.

Ah but isn't that the definition of intelligence: being able to hold two conflicting views without going completely insane. Like having tea and no tea at the same time.

[d000hg]

Was watching question time last night and I should not have been surprised, but I still was. How can someone hold two diametrically opposed thoughts in their head at the same time.

Ask a quantum mechanic It's a skill that takes a lot of practice.

[Gumbo Robot]

Well, not quite. Google says that the 'dissonance' is the stress caused by holing these conflicting views. Yet I rarely meet lefties who hold views such as you describe who are in any way stressed at the contradiction and inconsistency. In fact they don't even see the contradiction and inconsistency.

The stress arises when they worry about saying something that doesn't chime with the views expressed in the echo chamber that they inhabit.

[Platypus]

Ah. Cognitive Dissonance.

It's called cognitive dissonance & basically means they ignore all the facts in order to get their point of view over.

Well, not quite. Google says that the 'dissonance' is the stress caused by holing these conflicting views. Yet I rarely meet lefties who hold views such as you describe who are in any way stressed at the contradiction and inconsistency. In fact they don't even see the contradiction and inconsistency.

[EternalOptimist]

and , meanwhile, people who rely on facts are dumbfounded.

we are talking past each other and not to each other

[Gumbo Robot]

It's called cognitive dissonance & basically means they ignore all the facts in order to get their point of view over.

[VectraMan]

Is there a special course that lefties have to go on, or some sort of lobotmisation process they have to go through ?

No, but there is for everyone who appears on or watches QT.

[vetran]

Is there a special course that lefties have to go on, or some sort of lobotmisation process they have to go through ?

yes how to spend other people's money. Key tactic is to make people feel guilty so you can spend more of their money.

[EternalOptimist]

Was watching question time last night and I should not have been surprised, but I still was. How can someone hold two diametrically opposed thoughts in their head at the same time.
Paris Lees was talking about the NHS funding crisis and made the point that it was set up after the war when the country was on it's knees and very poor.
Later on, Paris Lees was commenting on International aid (foreign aid), she said we could afford it because we are rich 'due to our colonial asset stripping'

Is there a special course that lefties have to go on, or some sort of lobotmisation process they have to go through ?