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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you think needs to happen for them to stop being attracted to the hate?
I've seen a similar thing: rural people talking about all sorts of progressive ideas like UBI, student debt relief, and other policies for helping others (sometimes without even knowing that they're talking about progressive ideas) yet always go back to "immigrants this" or "elites that".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I wonder if the guy who lived as a goat for a few days has goat dreams...

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/the-man-who-lived-like-a-goat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Portland Maine has some amazing restaurants. Not sure what that guy's talking about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Shhh don't tell the paying customers that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a great point. I was being kind of reductive.

Perhaps religion's most zealous followers tend to be people who have trouble contextualising information? That would certainly help explain why the "I got mine proceeds to pull up ladder " attitude is so prevalent there...
Anyway, I don't want to come across like I'm arguing with you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if the concept of religion itself is conservative or if it just attracts that kind of person? My understanding is that most religions' holy texts are effectively just guide books on how not to be a dick to others (not that religious people actually read them that way). I wish someone would do a study to explore this cognitive dissonance in more depth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Police officer in florida discharged his entire magazine into thin air after an acorn fell on the roof of his vehicle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

As someone who always has a lot of questions (and is generally clueless about most of -waves hands- this stuff), I appreciate people like you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Au Québec, we already parlent franglais donc ce n'est pas a problem for nous! 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dear god don't put ideas into their heads

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate the actual explanation. I was genuinely asking, although I thought the commenter's reply was much funnier.

What a world we live in.

Random thought; a twitter nazi decoder ring could be a really funny novelty item

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