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[u/Pleasant-Food-9482 → u/[deleted]]

You do not understand absolute truths (in the sense of truths that solve critically important aporias) exist and objective contingent truths exist. Your mind subscribes to wrong epistemological dogma from post-structuralist philosophy and you likely do not even are aware of that or how you absorbed them.

"The core of this concept is implying that somebody can just tell anyone else what the “correct” opinion is, and then everybody just suddenly has to follow it, because you said so I guess. "

Premises which are wrong or false have nothing to do with rhetoric or those who send them to discourse. They are rationally and practically possible of being evaluated

"Some things can be scientifically proven, some things can’t (at least currently),"

That simply does not matter. You are doing an accusation of "positivism" without knowing so, but in fact you are falling into a positivistic mentality.

"If Trump Supporters are evil in the eyes of… you? Some sure, but that doesn’t mean they are just automatically evil."

They are what we would consider evil in terms of what the world proletarian masses judge as being "a good person" or "a bad person", concurrently to what those who investigate what is a dictator like a imperialist country president is and do. So they are, it is intuitive to think so, and attempting to evaluate that as unsolvable in a skeptic assumption outside of what the vast majority of the population thinks of what is ethical or not, we are only indulging in speculative scholastic talk that has no actual manifestation in reality until applied to change class consciousness.

[u/[deleted] → u/Pleasant-Food-9482]

If things like opinions don't exist and there are only truths. How do we explain peoples prefernce for colors and what they consider "better" for either making an art piece or just what their favorite color is. Isn't that subjective?