Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:09:12 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 1/5/2025 11:01 AM, john larkin wrote:
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Deplorable is is deplorable does, man. What am I supposed to tell people
who think violent crime "is way up" when it's been going down for 50
years and that children are regularly getting sex changes, or whatever
nonsense some significant fraction of citizens choose to believe today.
"Yeah, you're right?"
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Plenty of very well-to-do people seem to believe the same nonsense, so
it's not really a class-thing.

 
You invent people as targets for your need for contempt. You would
have been an ardent Nazi in the 1930's Germany. Tribal.
 

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'Fraid people who believe nonsense of the type I mentioned are not at
all "invented", if you don't personally know any or have never met any
maybe it's cuz you live in one of the most leftist places on Earth? ???

Humans are incredibly diverse.  You blame and mock (and imagine)
people who have different opinions than yours.

I think this intolerant diversity is evolved, naturally selected, as a
tribal survival mechanism. Probably your intolerance is genetic,
inherited; you can't help yourself.

This tribal tendency for intolerance is why we have wars.

You are emotionally driven to believe that you are always right. That
attitude, emotionally selective blindness and hostility to ideas, is
toxic to electronic design. I guess that's why so few people are good
at it.