Quote of the Day, This Is What Epistemic Closure Looks Like edition.

Portrait of a woman who – quite entertainingly – obviously does not understand why last week’s General Election in the UK returned such a surprising result:

One of the first things I did after seeing the depressing election news this morning was check to see which of my Facebook friends ‘like’ the pages of the Conservatives or David Cameron, and unfriend them. (Thankfully, none of my friends ‘like’ the UKIP page.) Life is too short, I thought, to hang out with people who hold abhorrent political views, even if it’s just online.

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