• ProfessorLupinstein@lemmy.world
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    I’ll never understand the drive to make other people’s lives more miserable. We’re given only so many years in this planet. Why not enjoy your life and let others enjoy theirs. These people seemingly can’t do either of those.

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      I guess it’s a good coping mechanism to not face your own problems. Also you always have something to do and you feel involved.

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        I do think it gives them a bigger narrative to be a part of. I suspect that’s a big draw too. It’s just a really shit narrative.

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          Good point. I think one thing modern world (maybe it was always this way) is kind of lacking providing people with meaning. Sure you are free to search and create your own, which is undoubtfully great. But some people need others people stories to make any sense of that mess we call life.

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        It’s not about that… I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand the psychology here. They feel strongly that something is wrong and want to fight it. That’s it.

        Again, not supporting it at all but you should at least understand that they are not so different from us. They just grew up around hate for these things and continue to feel hate for these things.

        If they would have grown up in a different environment, I don’t think they would even care about any of this.

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          Sure there are people who were just socialised into far right ideology, but there are also ones that arrived there later in life. Humans are complex. psychology ist messy and not very well understood. But feeling deeply unhappy and projecting on an out-group, are definitely something they all have in common.

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          I think it’s much simpler than that. People who feel inadequate look for outside forces to blame.

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      They carry so much hate inside that it rises up and makes them ugly on the outside. Just look at all of those Neo-Nazis who would never meet the criteria for being Aryan.

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      Imagine being such a failure as a human being that they drag others down the hole they’ve stubbornly dug for themselves.

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      I have no clue other than it provides a convenient excuse to justify their obstructionist ideals.

      If conservatives had it their way, the U.S. would still be just a British colony.

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      I’m not defending them but have you never had a strong conviction that something is wrong and you will do what you can to fight it?

      That’s how these people feel about gay people and so on. I can only assume they grew up around people who felt that way and they don’t see the error of their ways.