Civic religion cargo cult, they're dazzled by the power of the state over their lives (like, idk, speed limits and bans on raw milk) but also don't understand where it comes from or how it works so they're reduced to ritualistically mimicking its language and symbols in an attempt to wield the power for themselves.

How do people convince themselves that this is real when there are so many videos of people with similarly melted brains proving that this absolutely never works?

It's a question of faith, not evidence, like any religion.

:honk-enraged: Debaaaaaate meeeeee

*also lmao the poster who was just summarily labeling people moral reprobates for the crime of listening to the wrong genre of podcasts is now offended by someone taking an "aggressive tone." Just the biggest karen energy

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Calling thousands of completely normal people "vultures enjoying death" who "are not helping society" and who "should be ashamed of themselves" for consuming media you don't personally approve of is peak internet discourse but :honk-enraged: away I guess

capitalist exploitation and ecocide of the whole planet: :comfy:

someone somewhere is listening to a true crime podcast: :honk-enraged: