• PZK [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    When I see people that have shirts or bumperstickers like this, I know that they are deep down bothered by the fact that they are an asshole.

    If they didn't care, they wouldn't even mention it. It's a tough-talk cry for acceptance.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The degree to which someone tells you they don't care about something is directly proportionate to how much they actually care about it.

      There's a lot of things that I actually don't care about, and as a result, they don't cross my mind and I never talk or post about them.

      • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Right. Because when you truly don't care about something, it rarely occurs to you to even bring it up, much less to own a t-shirt espousing as much.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Happy people don't wear shirts explicitly telling the world about how happy they are because they don't need to.

      Just like how a person wearing a shirt that talks about how smart they are is guaranteed to be a massive dumbass.

      • NPa [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE"

        no, binch, u like sensationalized pop-science reporting and factoid lists

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's that politically, people very low in Agreeableness, one of the Big 5 personality traits, are likely to be on this side of the spectrum. Low Agreeableness men find no value in going along with the group and will do their own thing. High Agreeableness men place a very large value on what the group thinks and will find out what they think and mold themselves to it, tying their identity to being part of the group.

    • DasRav [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      This. Every truly soulless person who would just as soon shoot you in the mouth as acknowledge your existence wears suits and ties and goes to the business factory to produce business. They don't have the time or need for introspection and might in fact not know what it is.