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I think a lot of conspiracy theorists wrestle with the fact that the world is kind of shitty and there's not really a good reason for it to be this shitty.

Once you have that thorn in your side to deal with then you start trying to figure out why the world is so shitty.

Having a convenient enemy like the Illuminati or a conspiracy about the Earth being flat or some evil group of billionaires or leftists or whatever who have organized to make the world shittier so that their lives can be wonderful and perfect in every way is a great scapegoat for dealing with the underlying issue of "why is the world so shitty".

And this is a pill that many people will find it impossible to swallow, but the reason why the world is so shitty is this:

We, as a group, believe the world is shitty. Therefore, weact as if we live in a shitty world. Therefore we make the world shitty.

There is no other magic sauce than that. If humanity came together and decided that they would not live in a shitty world any longer we could have the world completely and totally fixed in 12 years or less.

But we don't do that because we believe that we live in a shitty world.

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AppaYipYip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think the problem is that no one can agree on what makes the world shitty. Some people think the rich should be taxed, some people think other people shouldn’t have equal rights. And then other people are purposely using the disagreement to get what they want. It’s a mess with no clear fix in site.

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- Bizarroland@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I would like someone who isn't afraid of being an asshole or trampling on the people who get in their way to take charge.
  
  Someone who will move the way Trump does but who has at their core an incorruptible nobility and drive to improve every facet of life for every human on the planet.
  
  I don't dare hope for or expect a perfect leader but I long for a good King Richard after a lifetime of Prince Johns and sherrifs of Nottinghams.
  
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  - number6@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, in American there was Bernie Sanders.
    
    It’s a confounding thing, that so many people will vote for leaders who straight-up tell them that they will make the world a worse place for them (Reagan, Trump, Thatcher).
    
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    Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Good thing the Democrats shot themselves in the foot and gave us Trump, and now Biden who is in a dead tie with Trump still acording to most polling.
    
    We could have had FDR 2.0
    
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