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Cake day: October 8th, 2025

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  • Combine throttled to non-existent critical thinking skills, normalized and profitable narcissistic and Machiavellian behaviors and a zero-sum based just world perspective and you get these ‘individuals’ lapping up the hollow authoritarianism we are dealing with today.

    As you said, they cannot understand why anyone would do anything for someone else unless they benefited directly. It is a transactional mindset due to the traits mentioned above, and it explains why they also can’t tolerate the idea that anyone else should get help to achieve the goals/material items they’ve achieved/obtained themselves. They truly believe that someone else’s gain comes at a cost to them. Student loan forgiveness, reproductive rights, and every government funded social program are examples.

    It is a mindset trapped in binary thinking with no tolerance, recognition, and acceptance of nuance or context. ‘Facts don’t care about your feelings’ lays it bare.






  • I’ve often thought about what you suggest, spending a day watching Fox News - to gain more of a wholistic perspective on what this sect of the country is digesting. It’ll be an exercise in restraint and patience for me personally, however there’s this part of me that already knows what their coverage is like and I fear it’ll be a waste of time.

    I spent about a month last year completely mired in conservative streams, for the same reason mentioned above. It was fucking awful and toxic, and it was also very informative with respect to how these people view this country. To consider any of their ideology one needs to suspend reality and most if not everything learned about history and government. I’ve never seen or felt so much fear, anger, and hatred as I did during this time. (From them and within myself)

    Essentially I feel I went into it backwards, I should have watched Fox News first and then went into the conservative streams (cause and effect). But to see the end result, how this stuff actually effects people, it was an eye opener that left me with little faith and even less trust in the naivety I once held - that these people are victims of manipulation and propaganda and simply need to educate themselves about the world in order to see it for what it is. Never again. This is a choice, and what is unfolding before us is only the beginning.