david
@davidwithegoodhair.bsky.social
east coaster out west, 🏳️🌈 & married, dog dad
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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
Don’t know yet what want this space to be, so I’ll start with dog content.
November 30, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Don’t know yet what want this space to be, so I’ll start with dog content.
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It is nice to be on a social media platform where you do not feel like some weirdo billionaire is Wizard of Oz-ing a bespoke nefarious algorithm from behind a giant curtain
November 12, 2024 at 5:59 AM
It is nice to be on a social media platform where you do not feel like some weirdo billionaire is Wizard of Oz-ing a bespoke nefarious algorithm from behind a giant curtain