• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I feel like a lot of them have fallen into Pascal’s Wager about the whole thing

    Funnily enough, you just described the Zizians. There’s a really good 4-part series of Behind the Bastards on them if you’re interested

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      3 days ago

      I’m familiar, but I think there’s a lot of less extreme thought along the same lines throughout especially the C-levels and presidential classes. It’s gone beyond being a selling point and started into being a full-on belief because they’ve been selling the lie so long.