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@darwinwoodka

"it's never my fault" is a standard personality trait of #narcissism

that's amongst the many things #MAGA essentially is (besides #bigotry, #ignorance, etc):

politically weaponized narcissism

millions of Americans out there, turned out to #vote by a #psyop campaign in right wing #media and #socialMedia catering to their personality disorders

(the same psyop campaigns work over personality disorders common on the left, such as #toxicIdealism, to suppress the vote on the left)

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@bouriquet @draNgNon

north korea has elections too

obviously #usa #democracy is in peril, but that's no reason to capitulate prematurely out of #cynicism

voting is merely a realm of a larger battle

you participate because a #vote shifts the battle lines

"but i want perfection now so i'm not voting" like an airhead makes the struggle harder

you move in a direction, you don't stand on #toxicIdealism

it's not romantic, it's pragmatic

or, don't vote

now we're even more fucked

@BeautifulThings @pixelpusher220

many on the left don't see that their own immature #toxicIdealism helps the fascist GOP win

yes, a lot of the whiny "i want perfect or i don't vote" shit on social media is trolls working a psyop on airhead leftist

but the trolls do it because it works

the fucking entitled airheads fall for it

yes, entitled:

if the stakes aren't enough to move you to #vote, however imperfect the choice, you are entitled

#Primaries2026:

show the fuck up, impotent assholes

@The_Caretaker @72mz @farbel @MannyDexter @MrBirch @grumble209 @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe

right, typical #toxicIdealism

"dems kill palestinians, i'll never vote dem"

and thus we get trump and many more dead palestinians

while if you vote dem, you get less dead palestinians

that should matter to you

but no

what matters to you is impossible purity

not the reality you live in

thus you have a big heart

and no fucking brain:

your nonvote, in reality, *harms* palestinians

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@todymotmot @FranceskaMann @profdc9 @zakalwe @wendinoakland @GutterPoetry

the essential #psychological failure of #toxicIdealism is as follows:

if one can justify a position inside the ivory tower mind palace of one's self-regard, then that is "morality"

no, it's #ego masturbation

true #morality is action, even if it is messy

but they value the purity of themselves, over actually mattering to the world

the real world is too messy, they can't be bothered with messiness

ego over #reality

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@grumble209 @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @GutterPoetry @zakalwe

you're not the fool

the #democrats suck but they are obviously better than #MAGA

the fools are those who think they have no stake in the outcome

they are entitled people

they believe a #trump presidency won't touch them

they sit out and demand perfection over simply better

people who think like that will never prevail in this world

it's *always* strategy. and via their fragile #toxicIdealism, they lose. we all lose

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@IndieGoblin @RobotDiver @RegGuy

Robot Diver:

would you admit that #trollfarm #psyop from #maga or internationally lies and falsely depicts #AOC's record to suppress the #left #vote?

if you do, please don't buy that manipulation anymore

most importantly:

there is a metric shitton of that lying psyop on AOC coming

absolutely nobody thinks AOC is perfect

there is no hero worship here, that's what maga morons do

understand the game of lies to elicit #toxicIdealism to suppress the vote

@CStamp @RobotDiver @RegGuy

a lot of the #toxicIdealism you see on #mastodon in terms of "they're not perfect, so don't #vote" is the same as a russian #troll putting an american flag on their #twitter handle and goosing #kremlin narratives targeting #maga

fake #leftists on the #fediverse with lazy easy #left bonafides to do their #psyop

they do it, because it unfortunately works

toxic idealism is a real problem with #leftist rhetoric

they suppress the left vote and we get #trump

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@inthehands @StillIRise1963 @tarheel

why i'm posting this now

#midterms2026 means enough #democrats to stonewall #trump

but as the time draws near you will hear the same old whiny lies:

"both sides the same"

"corruption is everything"

"nothing matters"

"waah waah"

some of it is real #toxicidealism

some of it is #geopolitical #trollfarm #psyop

advertising their fake #leftist bonafides, like an american flag profile on #twitter injecting a #maga #kremlin agenda

people fall for it

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@ohmu @Kierkegaanks

some #nonvoters are #rightWing turds too

we see the #toxicIdealism on the #left, the "it's not perfect so i won't #vote" because we're on #mastodon and in other social silos on the left, which amplifies our impression

still, it's a lot of people like that, enough to make a difference

which is why some of these toxic idealism voices we see are just #geopolitical #trollFarm #psyop, cosplaying their fake #leftWing bonafides and working hard to suppress the vote on the left

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@RickiTarr

#Midterms2026 #Midterms

Whiny voices soon on #Mastodon:

"both sides the same"

"i oddly focus on only one issue where #Democrats aren't perfect"

"nothing matters, all is #corruption"

and other #toxicIdealism #psyop

these are not organic voices

they will trumpet their #leftism bonafides like Russian #trolls on Twitter with #MAGA flags but they are #agentProvocateur divide and conquer

don't get me wrong:

yes, the Democrats suck

but if you don't see the choice?

oof 🤦

New paper out.

What happens when you make a model that includes realistic details about how people discuss ideas and decide how to act upon them? The answer is that with just 3 such elements of realism, one can mathematically explain the emergence of commonly observed situations, such as reaching a consensus and exchanging opinions, but also the separation of ideologies and the appearance of stable polarization. Not only this, but one can also account for phenomena such as peer pressure, cognitive dissonance, tactical voting and toxic idealism ( @benroyce I told you I was going to do it 😀 ) and prove how they affect the final state of the system.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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@cherylgk @mloxton @chrispomeroyhale @the5thColumnist @KathyLK

#toxicidealism on the #left is as bad a phenomenon as #MAGA on the #right

and equally prone to #manipulation by #geopolitical #trollfarm

with MAGA the manipulation is to champion #bigotry and make the #bigot feel safe

with the left the #psyop game is to demand absolute #ideological #purity in high holy fire and brimstone fury, and use that emotional high to detach, alienate, not #vote

and lose

in reality

which is what matters