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minus-square@BonesOfTheMoonlink23•2 months agoMy friend is a photojournalist who covers right wing extremists, and has been in many high profile situations interacting with them. He says they’re all just dumber than a bag of hammers, nothing more.
minus-square@Yawweee877h444link7•2 months agoYes, that coupled with tribalism makes them very easy to manipulate.
minus-square@sudo42linkEnglish6•2 months agoLike Carlin said, “50% of people have below-average intelligence.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoAs Ekaterina Shulman says about members of Gosduma: “it’s better to observe them from afar”.
minus-square@BonesOfTheMoonlink4•2 months agoYep. He was into Christian Identity and those people are MORONS. I tricked Reddit into giving me their subreddit and then banned them all.
My friend is a photojournalist who covers right wing extremists, and has been in many high profile situations interacting with them. He says they’re all just dumber than a bag of hammers, nothing more.
Yes, that coupled with tribalism makes them very easy to manipulate.
Like Carlin said, “50% of people have below-average intelligence.”
As Ekaterina Shulman says about members of Gosduma: “it’s better to observe them from afar”.
Would you throw Timothy McVeigh in with them?
Yep. He was into Christian Identity and those people are MORONS. I tricked Reddit into giving me their subreddit and then banned them all.