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  • I say this a lot but the conservative worldview really boils down to “my group is good and yours is bad”. That’s it. Thus when a conservative does something, it’s cool, because they’re good. When someone else does the same thing, it’s bad because they are bad.

    You can’t argue with this. It’s like if you’re making a math proof and someone tells you it’s wrong because you’re wearing a green shirt. The color of your shirt has nothing to do with this geometry. The hypocrisy has nothing to do with their value system.




  • I think 6th grade is reading for plot. Just a basic plot with a few characters. No complex themes. No unreliable narrators. Limited vocabulary.

    I found an online test for it somewhere and it was like

    “Sally was born in Canada and lived there until she moved to the United States when she was thirteen. She spends summers in Canada with her aunt and uncle, but spends the rest of the year in Boston. This year, she’s graduating from high school and planning on attending college. She wants to see more of the country, so her top picks for college are in California and Chicago.”

    “Where does Sally live during the winter?”

    “Where did Sally spend her childhood?”

    “Where do Sally’s aunt and uncle live?”

    You’re not going to find as many people who read badly on a majority text platform like this.








  • I don’t think “every single problem … must be reduced down to an individual failing” is super common, but sure, some people refuse to recognize systemic problems. There are loads of people who say racism isn’t a problem, for example, and that’s bad. Kind of off topic from childhood development and people who refuse to admit fault when it is plausibly their fault. (And saying you’re late because there was traffic because the city refuses to build effective mass transit may be technically true in a sense, but it’s also kind of useless, maybe even counter productive, in the moment where everyone else is waiting for you. Leave earlier. Use the agency you have.)



  • I can’t speak for everyone, but for me, in my youth, it helped to actually go out and do the things I was worried about. When I spent all my time home worrying, I just got worse. Once I left the house, went to the party, went on the hike, whatever, I found the reality wasn’t anywhere near what I had worried about


  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networktoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThe two-frame test
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    A lot of people here seem stuck on the details of the metaphor instead of focusing on how some adults refuse to ever consider they are wrong or at fault, and that’s a real problem in the world. You probably know someone who never admits fault for anything. If they’re late, it’s because of traffic. If they lose in mario kart, it’s because the controller is bad. If they get lost, it’s because the GPS is hard to understand. Never their fault.






  • Are you unfamiliar with how the passive voice works?

    “Man shot by police” vs “Police shoot man” are very different sentences.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/active-vs-passive-voice-difference

    Passive voice often gets criticized as a weak and evasive form of expression. But it is useful for those instances when you want to emphasize the fact of an action having taken place rather than who performed the action. It is also helpful for instances when the doer of an action (also known as the agent) is unknown.

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    The passive voice gets called out on occasion as a tool for expressing the avoidance of responsibility, like when one says “Mistakes were made” rather than “We made some mistakes.” Sometimes, as in our Elm Street example, it is criticized for placing what appears to be a burden of responsibility on the person who receives the action (i.e., the victim) rather than the person who performs it.

    Passive voice is for when the state does violence. Active voice is for when a protester does? Got it

    (emphasis added)