The amount of times I've been talking to some friends and I'll make a prediction or make an observation on what's going to happen in a political situation (or what to focus on), get disagreed with and called a tankie or pessimist or whatever, and then I'm correct 3 months later is driving me mad. Of course, they then start saying they need to protest against that or whatever. You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn't hard to be correct on, I'm just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you'd start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what's different between you and them????

Example: telling them ukraine has a nazi problem???? Why was this difficult.

It might just be me or something (likely) but it seems like it's a trend across the states.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I feel for you, I really do.

    You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn’t hard to be correct on, I’m just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you’d start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what’s different between you and them???

    Even understanding this crap :this: is something i say to myself often .The problem is that it's more about salesperson-ship than truth. Our belief is based more on habits, values, and emotional attachments than logic. Honestly, if you wanna understand more of how it works, marketing based psychology books are the way to go. Marketers are nothing more than propagandists, after all.