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>>Ozarki+(OP)
This thread is a great lesson in "Politics is a mind virus"

I recommend you read the HN thread when Ulbricht was sentenced [0] first, then come here and read all the "Honest, genuine question, why?"s

Then start practicing not letting politics influence your thought process

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>>Fergus+G8
Or it could be different people commenting than on that original thread? And people might have changed their minds? HN is not a monolith. Humans are not static. You don't need to blame it on "politics being a mind virus".

>>Trasma+ca
But “mind virus“ is such a cool phrase, and it implies that people who disagree with you are not just wrong, but diseased. Great bit of rhetoric.

>>brooks+nc
I don't know. I personally know people that lost their minds because of an election. Completely well off people, whose lives are not affected at all by national politics, apart from slight changes in tax rates. They live in a state and city that shares their politics. They're isolated from everything on the national level.

Yet some of these people have rearranged their entire lives around a singular politician. Ended relationships, moved, started therapy or medication.

It happens on both sides and its pretty sad.

What else would you call that?

>>bko+Ye
Belief.

Belief short circuits reason.

>>adfm+Eg
Weird part is that these two groups generally belive are not that different in the general. Most of the fight on the ideological side is on marginal differences.

This all is mostly idiotic tribal fight when you hate each other because you just must to hate someone.

I profoundly hope for star trek like civilisation in the future

>>hsudue+Uq
They’re not that different through a rich straight cis white Christian male perspective.

As soon as your skin color or sexual preference or religion or gender identity or income level is not in-group, they’re pretty different.