• very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I live in a deep red part of the country, surrounded by those people. Not a single one of them I’ve met seems happy. They’re all angry, paranoid and miserable.

    Most are over weight, uninsured, underemployed, and have a whole host of health issues on top of it. Voting for Trump didn’t change any of that, they’re still all miserable.

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      17 hours ago

      you’re looking at them from your perspective of “happy”.

      they look miserable to you because by all logic, they are.

      their brains have been reprogrammed to believe they’re happy because they are " winning" because you are “losing”.

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        17 hours ago

        I don’t know man… They’re all pretty eager to complain about their problems and winge about how ‘unjust’ the world is, or how persecuted they are.

        When people tell you who they are, usually it’s safe to believe them. None of these people wanna talk about how they’re happy. They look miserable, but they act miserable too.

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          15 hours ago

          That’s one way to look at it.

          Same thing I’ve observed, but the look of unhinged glee they get when they talk about ICE or police brutality against minorities is telling me they are happy with the current status and are willing to suffer as long as the others they hate suffer more.

          these fools have a persecution fetish I’ve never before, and I’ve seen some pretty mentally ill people in my time.