this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
553 points (100.0% liked)

Leopards Ate My Face

6641 readers
78 users here now

Rules:

  1. The mods are fallible; if you've been banned or had a post/comment removed, please appeal.
  2. Off-topic posts will be removed. If you don't know what "Leopards ate my Face" is, try reading this post.
  3. If the reason your post is on-topic isn't in the article or self-explanatory, you must use a second (high-quality) source to explain why your post fits the criteria.
  4. Articles should be high-quality sources. For a rough idea, check out this list. If it's marked in red, it probably isn't allowed; if it's yellow, exercise caution.
  5. For accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcription in the post body.
  6. Reposts within 1 year or the Top 100 of all time are subject to removal.
  7. This is not exclusively a US politics community. You're encouraged to post stories about anyone from any place in the world at any point in history as long as you meet the other rules.
  8. All Lemmy.World Terms of Service apply.

Also feel free to check out [email protected] (also active).

Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
553
/r/conservative discuss steel tariffs. "I may be out of a job, lol" (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
113 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Smells strongly of retrofitted justification BS to me.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. The dude that came up with the term cognitive dissonance described this process in his book When Prophesy Fails. Basically when you are in a cult and your doomsday ends up being a normal day you have a freak out of cognitive dissonance. This isn’t great because people don’t like having their strongly held beliefs shown to be invalid. So they must come up with a post hoc rationalization as to why their doomsday didn’t come true and why they are still right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yep, and the more they do it, the easier it becomes until it's second nature.

Republicans understood this, which is why they tapped into the Christian demographic. People who have already been primed to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

May also just be a troll tactic. Sowing retrofitted justification with ai. The first comment is bait.

I honestly cant tell anymore. Dead internet theory moving fast on that site.