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by HappySweeney 482 days ago
It's easy to understand, though? Daily outrage and vilification porn. Highly addictive stuff, and people will equivocate and believe the most preposterous things you've ever heard in order to keep the outrage righteous and their pornographer of choice credible.
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magicalhippo 482 days ago
Yes but no.

Right after the 9/11 attacks, one of the TV channels here started sending Fox News during the night (previously they had no 24/7 programming).

This was the first chance I got to really watch US news for more than a few minutes at a time, and the experience was quite eye-opening.

From what I can gather, it's way worse these days.

Still, no, I just won't understand why anyone "in the land of the free" would vote for someone so blatantly against freedom.

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HappySweeney 482 days ago
They have no choice to believe that he is the one that promotes freedom, and his adversaries the opposite. Not believing that would mean their outrage is not righteous, which would make future supply worthless, and their brains will just not allow that.
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wkat4242 482 days ago
Yes I'm really surprised and scared to see how much people actually like being consumed by anger and hate. We see the same in the Netherlands now since the radical right party came to power.

I've tried to 'disarm' this in some of my ex-friends with actual facts to show that they've been duped into many of their sources of anger. But it's like they don't want to know. Like you say, they want to hold on to it.

I don't see them anymore because I can't deal with that negativity.

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