Comment on Every semi-natural group of considerable size has rotten apples.

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In my experience it depends. Sometimes the twat to non-twat ratio is closer to 50/50. Sometimes 80% of them are utter twats. At every workplace it’s like there are entire apolitical parties of different types of twats all being twats toward each other.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    See, your theory fits within the framework of OP’s. OP is suggesting that, in friend and highly-competitive groups, the twat-ratio is much lower, say in the lower tenth percentile. In OP’s “valley” of interest and professional groups, the ratio may be closer to your 50:50.

    So, we could form a Unified Twat Theory, where the ratio of twats-to-competence is inversely proportional to the severity of the selection criteria.

    I leave the proof as an exercise for a grad student.

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• cryptosporidium140@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I buy it. The one way you might get around that is by forming a group of non-twats. But even then you’d need the ability to see into their souls to be sure

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  • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Groups that keep certain people out will definitely ferment twats.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, bad actors are still an issue.

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• OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would go the other way around but maybe im the twat and that’s why. Man, this made me reevaluate.

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy again?

    (Kidding…

    wait… maybe I’m the twat. …crap)

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