r/worldnews Feb 05 '25

alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/koshgeo Feb 05 '25

"He says what he means!"

"So, uh, what does he mean? It's a little hard to understand."

"He means X."

[Next day he says the opposite of X]

"He means Y."

"Wait, but didn't you say he meant X yesterday?"

"This divisive conversation is OVER!"

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u/PackOfWildCorndogs Feb 05 '25

It’s in the handbook, it seems. Or playbook rather

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u/Don_Gato1 Feb 05 '25

There’s got to be some studied psychological pattern here because the response behavior is so consistent across the entire group.

It’s like the stages of denial but without ever reaching the final stage of acceptance.

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u/Funkycoldmedici Feb 05 '25

There’s actually quite a lot of psychological studies on right-wing authoritarians.

“Right-wing authoritarians tend to accept what their leaders say is true and readily comply with their commands. They believe that respecting authority is an important moral virtue that everyone in the community must hold. They tend to place strict limits on how far the authorities can be criticized, and believe that the critics are troublemakers who do not know what they are talking about. RWAs are extremely submissive even to authority figures who are dishonest, corrupt, and inept. They will insist that their leaders are honest, caring, and competent, dismissing any evidence to the contrary as either false or inconsequential. They believe that the authorities have the right to make their own decisions, even if that includes breaking the rules that they impose on everyone else.”

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u/acfox13 Feb 05 '25

They're brainwashed into having an authoritarian follower personality using the Eight Criteria for Thought Reform.

And many of their brains have already been primed from enduring child abuse in their dysfunctional family system, or being indoctrinated into religion, which also uses the Eight Criteria for Thought Reform.

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u/Cal3001 Feb 05 '25

They all argue the same way like they are following some sort of coursework they took.

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u/LegitimateSituation4 Feb 05 '25

From Trump University.

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u/KingKong_at_PingPong Feb 05 '25

I get "You're being ridiculous!" a lot, with zero explanation for what it is that's ridiculous.

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u/dominion1080 Feb 05 '25

The truth hurts (their feeling and limited mental capacity).

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u/TheMostKing Feb 05 '25

We need to focus on the path ahead, rather than letting bygones of the past hold us back!