• enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They’d have to accept that they’ve been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can’t handle.

    They don’t want to confront the obvious lies, because they’re invested in believing them. They’re caught in phantasms.

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      And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset