• Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      No, research suggests that mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of people like this rather than the perpetrators. This person is likely fine mentally.

      We understand the desire to separate one/many’s self/selves from people like this but that’s just playing right into their hands.

      Truth is anybody can become like this, and pretending otherwise is not going to keep it from happening.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Someone who does this has a strong need for attention and belonging to a particular in‑group that they ignore most societal norms.

        They have a very low concern for how distressing or hostile this looks to others, which can overlap with traits like antagonism or narcissism.

        What you can reasonably infer from a car like this is: strong identification with polarizing politics, comfort with provoking or upsetting others in public, and a high need to broadcast grievance or hostility; those are compatible with higher dark‑trait scores.

        While not specifically “mentally ill”, they exhibit traits that are socially unacceptable and very likely to be irrational, hostile, and generally unstable. But at least they label themselves as someone to avoid at all costs.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    I wish Margaret Thatcher could return from hell for exactly ten seconds. Just enough time to take in the state of English nationalism in the Year of Our Lady of Discord 3192.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    It’s amazing somebody’s managed to decrease the value of a Tesla even more than usual

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I love when they start throwing around “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as an insult, and Lefties don’t get insulted at all, because it is apparent to EVERYONE that it describes MAGAs far more accurately than their enemies.

      They prove their virtuosic incompetence every day, and their complete lack of self-awareness is hilarious. Ironically, the people that should wrestle with Imposter Syndrome every day, have absolutely none of it.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Yeah but with these lot it’s always a “the call is coming from inside the house” situation. It’s all about projection.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      8 days ago

      If they mention TDS, just tell them you don’t have The Daily Show, since Paramount owns it.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      trump derangement syndrome

      Really thinking this should be codified by the DSM. The long term exposure to one of the dumbest people in the world intentionally mangling the truth daily, with zero ability to escape - unless you want to ignore the travesties and cruelty his policies bring - does cause mental anguish in a way I think most people in the US have never experienced; a decade plus of psyops lying and telling you it’s truth, all driven by a deranged moron…

      If he were nobody, it wouldn’t matter a whit. Letting the moron drive the bus over the cliff while shouting “actually, everything is fine” over the speakers is simply insulting. Trump’s deranged bullshit inflicted on the country certainly seems like something sociologists and psychologists should study in great detail.

    • Unquote0270@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      From the unfortunate conversations I’ve had with a friend who leans in these directions, they see him as sticking it to establishment and willing to express attitudes they felt ashamed to express previously. Plus they are just dumb as fuck and Trump’s utter nonsense takes on politics which conveniently leaves out complexity appeals to them – things like “the economy isn’t doing very well and the reason is immigrants” makes it simple for their underdeveloped reasoning skills.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Gross. The economy and immigration are generally unrelated issues

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Well that’s just not true, immigration is great for the economy in terms of GDP because more workers make numbers go up and bad for “the economy” in terms of deflating local wages.

          It’s a complicated balance but they’re certainly not unrelated.

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            I think the housing crisis or cost of living crisis is mostly unrelated to bad immigration regulation, but that’s still a small factor.

            Immigration when done correctly is great, of course you have to consider ensuring local people are employed first and you are filling in needed gaps or creating more business and employment in general

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              The population increase over the last 26 years has almost exclusively been from people having kids. Immigration accounts for less than 5% over that period. So yeah the housing crisis has literally nothing to do with immigrants.

              • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
                12·
                6 days ago

                That’s dishonest, you’re framing it like breeding is the problem. The problem is that not enough houses are being built.

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        It is actually simple though, the economy isn’t doing well and the reason is the super rich. We could drill down and refine that, but the rich being the problem is not an incorrect statement by any means, and just as easy to understand.

        Point being, we know people are stupid, and the president is the only one that looks like he’s fighting. That calls out villains and promises to do something about it. Either we get someone to do that for real, or we will get fake populists scapegoating others, and likely trying to take absolute power and kill democracy, such as it remains.