• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    It’s stupidity and immaturity more than maliciousness, at least in the case of the US lumpen. The results might be more or less the same but the reframing helps with living in this world and believing in people’s ‘well-meaning nature’.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      20 hours ago

      I appreciate this, and it does help turn the ire into pity a bit, but I do worry that unfortunately the effect sort of remains the same regardless