Comment on What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Conservatives don’t believe things, they believe people. Their entire worldview is defined by interpersonal loyalty. In their minds, if rightful authority moved a Falling Rocks sign, the rocks would fall somewhere else.
Trying to hold any these idiot bigots to the logic of their claims accomplishes absolutely nothing. They could be reasonable - but that visibly is not the brain activity they are engaged in.
anothermember@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I think they don’t believe anything, they just regurgitate the last thing they read in the tabloids, and they do it not through loyalty to the tabloids but purely through conformity to their friends who are also regurgitating the last thing they read in the tabloids. It’s the same mentality as football team supporters, they have no meaningful personal stake in “their” team but it provides a social role, and it’s harmless when it’s just football, let them have their fun, but it’s dangerous when it comes to the well-being of all the people in the country.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Exactly - it’s reality as a team sport. Innate human tribalism as a theory-of-everything.
I thought it was more nuanced until 2020 saw them stick to the script in-between hacking coughs with bits of lung.