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minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·4 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-squareYawweee877h444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoYes, that coupled with tribalism makes them very easy to manipulate.
minus-squaresudo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoLike Carlin said, “50% of people have below-average intelligence.”
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoAs Ekaterina Shulman says about members of Gosduma: “it’s better to observe them from afar”.
minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 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”.
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Yep. He was into Christian Identity and those people are MORONS. I tricked Reddit into giving me their subreddit and then banned them all.