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[–] mindbleach 1 points 5 months ago

In the loyalist worldview, there is nothing but hierarchy. That's why these people are stereotypically awful to waitstaff: those employees are beneath them. Anything short of subservience is a personal attack.

I need folks to understand that people in this tribalist mindset do not evaluate information. They only accept or reject claims based on interpersonal loyalty. Reality itself is defined by whatever the people above them say, today. Their betters must be smarter and richer and more handsome, or else they wouldn't be above them. 'Where's your Bugatti?'

Reasoned argument is a learned behavior. It's visibly not what these people are using their brains for. They're still just shuffling cards. So yes, many individuals above them are now wrong and ugly and poor, and condemning them will involve a lot of familiar terms that outgroup critics told them in vain. But they're not fixed. They didn't suddenly recognize the system. They just passed their excusable limit on bad things happening to them, personally.

And they're still liable to waltz back in, even if it gets worse. All they need are better excuses to raise the limit.