MAGA epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that seeks to know how we know things, how we can determine what is true and even what is real. It might seem odd to be talking about epistemology here, but it turns out that MAGA epistemology explains a lot about why MAGAs think like they do. MAGA epistemology is really quite simple: If they want to believe something, it's true. If they don't want to believe it, it's fake news. All the facts, figures, logic, and real-world observations that constitute "evidence" for a normal person are useless, meaningless, worthless nonsense to MAGAs. That's why people find it so frustrating to talk to MAGAs--anything that a normal person considers evidence is just useless drivel to them because their only determinant of reality is if they want to believe it.

That's how they can tell instantly that every detail of some lunatic wingnut conspiracy theory or fantasy is totally true. For instance: Hillary, along with George Soros and Bill Gates, eats live white Christian babies with taco sauce and drinks their blood while sitting on the veranda of her sex slave colony on Mars. It says something horrible about people they hate; therefore, they want to believe it; therefore, it's true, in every detail. There is absolutely no evidence of it; it's manifestly impossible. But reality factors have absolutely no use in their epistemology. They don't need to consider questions like: NASA doesn't know how to get humans to Mars and back, so how does Hillary do it? NASA doesn't know how to establish permanent human living on other planets, so how does Hillary do it? Why don't we ever hear about any billionaires (the only people who could afford a trip to Mars) disappearing for nine months at a time (minimum time to get to and from Mars) while they do their trip to Mars to boink 12-year-olds? And perhaps the biggest question of all, given what we now know was happening at the time these wacko stories started: Why would any billionaire spend nine months in a tin can traveling to Mars to boink a 12-year-old when Jeff Epstein was still having parties right here on earth?

MAGA epistemology explains why MuskOx and the DOGEkins come up with such outrageous conclusions about the places they break into. If they find something they don't understand, on the spur of the moment, they just make up the most evil conspiracy they can imagine, and then they KNOW that since they made it up, that makes it true. Ordinary MAGAs do that too. That's one of the exasperating things about trying to talk to MAGAs: they just make up stuff for which there is not any evidence whatsoever, but since they made it up, they know it's true. And when they say that they "do their own research," it simply means that they look for a wackadoodle website that tells them what they want to hear.