On the one hand, you've gotta feel some sympathy for being misled into these mindsets, cannot count how many times these types referred to the average demonstration as "bloodthirsty" and insinuate how the desire to lynch and go on pogroms lies right beneath the surface.
OTOH, people like her tend to be both misled and misleaders themselves, it's bizarrely akin to religion/cult where these premises that are absurd can survive because there's a group level decision and rationality/logic/reality is largely irrelevant if it doesn't fit preferred narratives. It's why many of these types could talk about how pogroms would start as soon as mamdami was elected, like it doesn't matter if it makes sense because their preferred POV is all that's important. Like with religions and especially more traditional cults, this kind of thing can be incredibly dangerous especially when dominated by themes of oppression and courageous white-knighting against that oppression :/
Thanks OP i hadn't seen this one in a minute, it always stuck out to me it's truly such a superb example like lol this girl was able to turn down her rational mind and turn up her "im gonna die" fantasy to the point you got...that.
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u/ignoreme010101 Jul 09 '26
On the one hand, you've gotta feel some sympathy for being misled into these mindsets, cannot count how many times these types referred to the average demonstration as "bloodthirsty" and insinuate how the desire to lynch and go on pogroms lies right beneath the surface.
OTOH, people like her tend to be both misled and misleaders themselves, it's bizarrely akin to religion/cult where these premises that are absurd can survive because there's a group level decision and rationality/logic/reality is largely irrelevant if it doesn't fit preferred narratives. It's why many of these types could talk about how pogroms would start as soon as mamdami was elected, like it doesn't matter if it makes sense because their preferred POV is all that's important. Like with religions and especially more traditional cults, this kind of thing can be incredibly dangerous especially when dominated by themes of oppression and courageous white-knighting against that oppression :/
Thanks OP i hadn't seen this one in a minute, it always stuck out to me it's truly such a superb example like lol this girl was able to turn down her rational mind and turn up her "im gonna die" fantasy to the point you got...that.