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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t mind when bad news is posted. It’s important to know these things. What bothers me is how the top comment is always some low-effort defeatest bullshit like “and there will never be consequences.”

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fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m finding that some really bizarre ideas around persecution are embraced on lemmy.

In some other thread someone is trying to convince me that wealthy people hate e-bikes because they don’t want poor people to be free.

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- Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is some evidence for the bizarre ideas: Social dominance theory - Wikipedia
  
  Many Differences between Liberals and Conservatives May Boil Down to One Belief - Scientific American
  
  People who score high in hierarchical world belief see the world as full of differences that matter because they usually reflect something real, inherent and significant. Such individuals often separate things of greater value from things of lesser value.
  
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  - intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Holy shit why have I not been reading sociology all these years?
    
    Does anyone know of a good intro to sociology textbook I can read to get started?
    
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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
YES good point. This is truly where I feel the most disgust.

Honestly if you wanted to demoralize a nation and had either some GPT bots or rooms full of foreign operatives, this kind of defeatist top comment would be a pretty effective way of doing it.

You can just influence the culture of their people. Make them think through social proof that the right way to act is to be defeatist and pessimistic and negative.

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