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aussieninja in LeoFinance • last year

Agree to a large part of this. New Orgs knows upsetting news gets eyeballs, social media platforms elevate conflict above all us to keep users on the platforms, billionaires fund misinformation to keep people distracted and disorganized.

There is a missing step though... and that's the forming of the radicalized communities. People are isolated and fed misinformation as you've said... the solution is to form local community.. but often what happens is people find radicalized communities that justify and encourage violence.

There's a reason that all 3 of Trump's assassination attempts and this car bomb were by Trump supporters - they've found community with a violence-loving radicalized group within the MAGA movement.

The violence is only going to get worse... especially as social services like the VA is cut under DOGE.

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tarazkp last year

You are absolutely right, I skipped a big piece. One of the problems with the way I write is the ideas at the start, don't always make it in.

It should have been introduced when talking about the platforms, and the places setup to support, because they also support the community, the like minds. It gives them a home.

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I added a short bit there about giving a home.
I also added "Give them an identity to defend." at the end.

I think that the polarisation process is about building an identity, something to resist the enemy, a counterpart. And, the continual slicing of the groups into smaller fragments, supercharges those bits of identity. People are losing their multifaceted selves, to a radical singular image of who they think they are.

The violence is only going to get worse... especially as social services like the VA is cut under DOGE.

I would say that a lot of mental health services will be further reduced, and I am guessing they aren't well funded now.

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aussieninja last year

Yes!

I honestly hate terms like 'right', 'left', 'conservatives' and 'liberals' because we are actually multi-faceted and can hold lots of different beliefs, thoughts and ideals that don't fit neatly into just one of those boxes... but people crave community and sometimes mistake cliques/cults for community.

Community is about belonging rather than fitting in and working towards a mission or goal, whereas cliques are about gate-keeping and establishing identity on who isn't part of the group - which sometimes encourages violence towards those not in the group.

If there is a true division, it's really the 0.1% versus the rest of us, but they spend absolutely incredible resources keeping us fighting and divided.

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tarazkp last year

but people crave community and sometimes mistake cliques/cults for community.

For sure. There is a lot of this going on across many aspects of life. Like lonely people mistaking sex for intimacy, or flavour for nutrition. I reckon a lot of our world is made of inadequate substitutes.

If there is a true division, it's really the 0.1% versus the rest of us, but they spend absolutely incredible resources keeping us fighting and divided.

Yet, in the US at least, they keep getting voted into power as representative of the people. Inadequate substitutes.

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