This, but absolutely unironically, since the ironic version is naked advocacy for an ethno-state.
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I'm not in any particular state of distress, adjusted for being in a dusty hellscape with suspect air and poisonous tap water. Sense of group belonging, at least "traditional"/"ethnoracial", is massively overrated.
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you do actually have an in-group. in your case (as in my case, though maybe to different degrees) it's not your ethno-racial compatriots. it's an international, inter-ethnic, internet connected in-group. if you didn't have that you'd feel the pain. total isolation is unbearable.
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At that point in-group is sufficiently flexible that you'd need to expend considerable active effort not to have one.
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right. what happens instead is that really isolated and alienated people (e.g. incels) expend minimum effort and get an in-group that is really shitty and bad for them. they'll take a shitty, harmful in-group over no in-group because the pain of total isolation is that severe.
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and it's a horrible trap that leads to tragic outcomes and years of suffering for most of them.
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Alternate hypothesis: they have idiosyncratic partner preferences (both sexual and otherwise) and exotic beliefs, so it's less "alienation" and more "active self-selection into a very wonky weird community", like a flagellant monk order
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and it could have been way way worse. It could have been a literal flagellant monk order. Or a literal death cult. Or a funny innovative combination of those.
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interesting thoughts. granted it could be worse, but it's already bad, how do we make it better?
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This is profoundly alien to me, but I accept it as a true report of your perception. Or a phrasing that doesn't sound quite so condescending, apologies. I get what you mean, I just don't really understand how it can be true, but I accept the statement is sincerely made.
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I concur with the statement above ^^
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