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> I swear the last 4 years drove the vast majority of everyone insane, in a very literal sense. TDS is very, very real and when paired with this whole covid th

> I swear the last 4 years drove the vast majority of everyone insane, in a very literal sense. TDS is very, very real and when paired with this whole covid thing it only got worse. Peoples deep issues with the last 4 years joined forces with media fear mongering to create a perfect storm resulting in what will be someday be looked back upon as a massive "social engineering" failure.

bendmorris 5y ago
If you think extreme polarization and degradation of critical thinking is exclusively a problem of the other side, it probably applies to you as well.
- spookthesunset 5y ago
  Oh dude… believe me I had TDS big time. Watching the last 17 months of medical fascism cured me of that real quick. Now I’m not on anybody’s team. There is a large group of people I used to know and respect that completely and literally lost their marbles this past year and a half. And I mean that in all sincerity… they are a shell of who they were before. Blindly listening to “experts” coupled with a visceral hatred for “the others” and intense, unexamined fear can land you in a very bad mental state. Question authority. All authority. Even “the experts”. Always. They do what they are incentivized to do, which often has nothing to do with what is in the best interest of society at large.
objectivetruth 5y ago
_Some 23% of Republicans... say they agree with the baseless QAnon allegation that “the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.”_ Source: https://www.prri.org/research/qanon-conspiracy-american-politics-report/ https://www.prri.org/research/qanon-conspiracy-american-poli... By chance, do you have a comparably researched statement about how "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is "very, very real" that didn't come from a Twitter thread or YouTube video?

bendmorris 5y ago

If you think extreme polarization and degradation of critical thinking is exclusively a problem of the other side, it probably applies to you as well.

spookthesunset 5y ago
Oh dude… believe me I had TDS big time. Watching the last 17 months of medical fascism cured me of that real quick. Now I’m not on anybody’s team. There is a large group of people I used to know and respect that completely and literally lost their marbles this past year and a half. And I mean that in all sincerity… they are a shell of who they were before. Blindly listening to “experts” coupled with a visceral hatred for “the others” and intense, unexamined fear can land you in a very bad mental state. Question authority. All authority. Even “the experts”. Always. They do what they are incentivized to do, which often has nothing to do with what is in the best interest of society at large.

objectivetruth 5y ago

_Some 23% of Republicans... say they agree with the baseless QAnon allegation that “the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.”_ Source: https://www.prri.org/research/qanon-conspiracy-american-politics-report/ https://www.prri.org/research/qanon-conspiracy-american-poli... By chance, do you have a comparably researched statement about how "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is "very, very real" that didn't come from a Twitter thread or YouTube video?