• Soulphite@reddthat.com
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    10 days ago

    Why is everyone afraid of this stupid fucking pedophile?

    I guess he can very well take everyone down with him because he would. All these fuckwad sleezeballs in Washington have dirt on them one way or another. Not a clean soul in the fuckin place.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      because he has a magaphone and can get them shot by his cult members, or he has enough pull to fuck the self-serving fucks re-election chances, take your pick.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Ah, that’s a great book. I’ve been telling people to read that for years and years.

        Anyway, I would not be surprised to learn that many right wing politicians against not only themselves, but their families. And I’m sure that’s coming from inside the party.

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        9 days ago

        I think the knowledge is quite delightful. It fundamentally inverses the idea that “anyone put in the position of [horrible people] would act [horrible]” and shows that it is, in fact, related to a spectrum of cognition. It also shows us that this spectrum of cognition can be shifted by surroundings, in a surprisingly easy way. Plus, we see that the side of the spectrum that we would instinctively consider bad (authoritarian) is not. It is a very useful thing, when tempered by the social group.

        Also, it appears to be catching on. One of the bullshit probably AI articles that litters the new tab screen on my browser was a (very) dumbed down version of Altemeyer’s theories. That gives me some hope too.

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      9 days ago

      He ran the largest blackmail/honeypot operation over many decades. he has enough dirt on enough people to litterally do anything he wants.