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minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoMy friend is a photojournalist who covers right wing extremists, and has been in many high profile situations interacting with them. He says they’re all just dumber than a bag of hammers, nothing more.
minus-squaren0clue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWould you throw Timothy McVeigh in with them?
minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYep. He was into Christian Identity and those people are MORONS. I tricked Reddit into giving me their subreddit and then banned them all.
minus-squareYawweee877h444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYes, that coupled with tribalism makes them very easy to manipulate.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAs Ekaterina Shulman says about members of Gosduma: “it’s better to observe them from afar”.
My friend is a photojournalist who covers right wing extremists, and has been in many high profile situations interacting with them. He says they’re all just dumber than a bag of hammers, nothing more.
Would you throw Timothy McVeigh in with them?
Yep. He was into Christian Identity and those people are MORONS. I tricked Reddit into giving me their subreddit and then banned them all.
Yes, that coupled with tribalism makes them very easy to manipulate.
As Ekaterina Shulman says about members of Gosduma: “it’s better to observe them from afar”.