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by mhoad 1705 days ago
From the point of view from the manipulator they are the best kinds of targets because they are so certain that they would never fall victim to it.

There’s a very specific kind of mentality that conflates I’m smart in one particular area (tech for example) therefore I am smart in general and therefore immune to magical thinking which just as a theory has been blown apart more times than I can imagine, it’s a meme at this point.