Ann Archy

Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.

You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?

We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.

Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:

https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/sociology/conformity
Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it too

https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
A similar experiment performed by Solomon Asch

https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)

Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:

Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.

Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.

It’s always economic terminology with these people, that and sports references (three strikes or w/e).

On a psychological level their choice of wording reveals that they see everything in terms of money, rather than ideals and values.

I also took an iPad course.

I’m making four flights soon with the Boeing 737 Max 8. I’m sure the software is probably all updated and debugged properly.

“We have tried nothing, and it’s not working!”

I always saw them more as cunts, personally, but I suppose they can be more than one thing.

I feel like this is a problem. Is this a problem? This guy thinks so.

“We did nothing wrong! We did NOTHING AT ALL!”

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But of course they would say that.

But of course they would say that…

Directed by Roman Polanski

Don Jr is sending white powder to the judge. Let’s hope he got his baggies mixed up and Don is snorting anthrax right now.

Less knife fights in 50’s danceoffs, too!

Thank you for your bullshit excuse.

Insert your own hypocrisy here:

Why does it matter that he’s gay? Or in porn? It’s odd, it’s like it’s ok to shame people for their sexuality whenever they’re on “the other side”.

Insert you bullshit excuse below:

While effective, this strategy has been proven untenable in the battlefield due to logistical constraints.

“To get elected, pick a marginalized group and blame them for your constituent’s problems.”

I find even simple gardening tools will do for the DIY-selfer.

I have no issue seeing this, based on her past behavior. Sometimes you get Lars Ulrich, or maybe it’s her handlers, but she always seemed on board with that. Regardless of her other positions, whoever gives a fuck about those.