Really we just need people actively involved in local politics so we can stop the fake lines in the sand all these isps are drawing to avoid competition.

Yup. I’ve been doing this my whole life and am just learning how common this is. A lot of people have told me they believe I’m very smart. And others for sure have thought I’m the dumbest person in the room. And it’s probably this that has been causing that. 🤣

Cognitive dissonance.

“Coping with the nuances of contradictory ideas or experiences is mentally stressful. It requires energy and effort to sit with those seemingly opposite things that all seem true. Festinger argued that some people would inevitably resolve the dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe.” Festinger, Leon (1962). “Cognitive Dissonance”

Wait. You are generalizing her as negative because she prefers to be called they? Lol human beings a fucking idiots.

Wefwef is basically Apollo for lemmy imo.