I'm 33, but man, am I glad I found forums with open minded people...to be a hateful bigot in today's age...just doesn't make sense to me.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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In any age, it didn't make sense. We are strong, united. The elite seek to divide us because it makes us weaker and easier to control. Nobody is born a bigot.
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billionaires have bought up many of the popular entertainers of the internet age, or the platforms they're hosted on. the propaganda pipeline is worse than it's ever been, and people who aren't in its crosshairs have no idea how bad it's become.
Wise dudes should always zig when the bandwagon of bros zags. Increases your chances.
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I have been trying to understand what makes people lean so much into the right wing but, I don’t really get it.
For example the hot topic of immigrants, the right wing is blaming it all on them. However, not every problem is because of immigrants and neither will these problems suddenly be solved when the people are out of said country.
The entire thing against LGBTQ and/ or people of color does not make sense either. Pushing minority groups away just brings more hatred and will lead to violence. Eventually it will even lead to their own misery once they do not fit their “ideal person”.
Same thing regards other religion than their own, it’ll lead to more hatred, violence and eventually their own misery once they do not fit their ideal kind of religion person.
Not only that but history has shown what political far-right does and from what I have read, it is nothing really good. I mean just look to 1930-1945 Germany and Italy with Mussolini.
It weaponizes self-esteem. Gives you someone to feel better than.
The simple answer is people want simple answers. Propaganda, especially that of the right gives them. Sure the answers are wrong, but they are easy to digest in the moment.
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And the loneliness epidemic continues
Thanks I hate this
I remember growing up in the 90's being told by friends, family members and teachers that I don't need or deserve help because everything is easier for a man, or being told by my boss that she won't promote men because she doesn't trust men with money, or women being mean to me because of my gender and then telling me it's payback for things they read men did to women decades ago. And then when I try to talk about these experiences, people telling me they don't believe me, or they didn't happen, or they don't matter.
And I remember, as a kid, saying "one day there's gonna be a whole generation of boys who grew up around women like you, and they're going to want payback".
Well here we are. Keep blaming internet propaganda.
And everyone else in the room clapped, I presume?
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