Politics in Jordan is crazy
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    I just remember going to Jordan and seeing a giant picture of the king's son, a preteen boy, in every building I entered. Can't imagine what kind of megalomania you develop from seeing shrines to you everywhere you go starting from your childhood.

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    How do reactionaries stay happy while consuming hate-slop 24/7?
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html

    "You can't see it, but since this is America, the problem here is debt.  Not credit card debt, though I suspect that's substantial too, but self-esteem debt.  They're borrowing against their future accomplishments to feel good about themselves today, hoping they'll be able to pay it back."

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    How do reactionaries stay happy while consuming hate-slop 24/7?
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    They are addicted to the feeling of power they get when sneering at something/someone. Whenever they say "clown world" they feel like Jim from the Office staring directly at the camera--as if they are in the know, the most informed ones, the superior ones. That plus the comment sections of these videos give them a rush from both them posting and getting likes, and seeing their existing views get articulated by others--that rush of validation is hard to come by IRL.

    They aren't necessarily miserable in the traditional sense, in the first person, as long as they are not directly doing introspection or evaluating how far detached from everyday people they have made themselves. Usually the craving for these feelings of superiority/validation comes from them trying to mute some deeper insecurity and inadequacy they are avoiding facing up to at all costs.

    For instance a lot of judgmental puritanical people are also frightened of the possibility that they can't hang with the cool crowd and cannot make themselves likable in social settings, so adopting the worldview that those who can are actually just "mainstream," sheep or forbearers of civilizational collapse enables them to cast themselves as righteous/principled for not participating in the worlds that they'd felt excluded by in the first place.

    The harm these people are ultimately doing though is what is known as "self esteem debt," mentally placing themselves on pedestals they did not earn through any real-world action, and having to retreat to ever more demented circles and echo chambers to sustain the feeling of being on the right side of something--leaving their own self development stagnating, letting their insecurities compound rather than be unpacked.

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  • Show Nancy she's no Kingmaker! Join the #WriteInBiden movement today!
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    Oh yeah it is the greatest example of "if you build it, they will come." Even the stupidest shit has its fans and devotees, that's why every once in a while you see an article like 'Why Sucker Punch is an underrated classic."

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  • Passing on Parenthood. Growing trend shows women choosing to remain child-free
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    I don't know how likely that becomes when the majority of people having kids are in insular communities with heavy media consumption regulation and home schooling

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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    I mean it is myopic but I get how it arises. If a suburban Afro-Carribbean lady goes downtown and is sexually harassed by some overfamiliar black dude with "no home training" it will color her perceptions of working class black Americans in the same way it would shape a suburban white person's perception. And for black immigrants to America and suburban black Americans things like code switching, having non-stereotypically-black hobbies or fraternizing with white/non-black people extensively are not inaccessible or taboo things, so such people more easily navigate spaces where jobs and opportunities for wealth are more plentiful.

    It's myopic to pin all this on Black American "culture" of course because Black Americans are a people who have never had sovereignty or been the stewards of their collective destiny, and most of the "negative" behaviors blamed on "culture" are downstream from generations of targeted segregation/economic deprivation. But I do think if the white liberal/leftist response when say, there is a viral video of a group of black kids beating on a white kid is only silence, apologism, or tiptoeing, then the angry conservative response even while racially charged is sometimes actually closer to what middle class black Americans/Black immigrants actually want to say about such an event and it's participants.

    There needs to be a frank but forward moving vision involving some sort of direct reparations and mending the faults caused by historical race riots/redlining, to actually resolve key issues surrounding "Foundational Black American" neighborhoods.

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  • Good job lady
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    TemutheeChallahmet
    2mo ago 100%

    In my experience the more successful a black person is the more likely they are to be conspiratorial to reconcile their success with their ancestral legacy (How could black people have been slaves for so long, when I have this much potential? We must be native to the US, etc.), and the conspiracy world is often antisemitic, homophobic and enamored with Trump. Remember when Kanye said slavery must have been a choice to go on for 400 years? That strain of thought did not originate from him but is instead a whole political movement.

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