how can people live like thishttps://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1090474475676753921 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think they can't. I don't know that much about the specifics but whenever I see those social dynamics I assume there is inherently an underlying zero-sum economy driving the nastiness.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
again, maybe I'm wrong, but this seems explanatory to me. A whole community full of broke aspirants competing for the limited number of slots (big publisher deal with a multi-million $ marketing budget to promote the book series) and no access to the market otherwise.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
so if you want to get your own shit chosen for the pedestal, well, you might just have to knife the person in front of you to get that. I doubt they are as self-consciously Machiavellian about it but that is operant at a subconscious level.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
my impression is a lot like yours, not many people operating at a "planning" level, vast numbers of people desperate for a leg up and mimicking whatever they see getting attention and approval at a level way prior to "if this then that"
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
the one piece that I can't quite fit into this hypothesis is why the sociopaths find it so so easy to recruit online rage mobs to do their bidding. why does some rando on the internet want to participate in that?
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like, look at this shit, I am literally gobsmacked. wtf is this?pic.twitter.com/e10E3T0Yfj
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ok addendum to the hypothesis. the sociopaths are uniquely adept at mobilizing a specific demographic (obsessive fans of YA novels marketed to girls) by latching on to the neuroticism and cruelty that is a perennial feature of tweenager life.
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ya. but what about the ones they manipulate? what's up with that?
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they're desperate, they see no future for themselves other than being like the people around them they see being raised up as the victors in the Hunger Games
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