To understand the and the phenomenon, keep in mind that so many folks backing that side have trouble understanding other perspectives, instead projecting their own viewpoint onto others, assuming everyone else is just like them.

It's a big problem that folks can't seek consensus when they start with different sets of facts, and this is one of the major sources of that.

Here has a personal respect for force so he assumes everyone else does too.

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@volkris Don't worry. I am fully aware that other people can be evil.

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@light But that's my point: by and large whether they are evil or not, the folks I'm referring to are working with a separate set of facts.

Treating them as just evil misidentifies the problem and so will too often produce solutions that actually make the situation worse.

Often enough folks engaging them as evil ends up playing into their game, handing them successes that they wouldn't otherwise have.

I'd even say that kind of thing helped get Trump reelected.

@volkris Sorry, I misread. I thought you were saying that everyone does that. Not just MAGA.
I was clarifying that I do not.

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