The delusions include an unshakeable belief that they’re right. Think of all the covid deniers that died denying it with their actual last gasp of breath.
There’s no fixing them. There’s no reconciliation with people that constantly want to do harm regardless of the consequence. They’re hopeless.
Not sure you can reform those that are unwilling to recognize a fault within themselves. Their perspective is always that the fault lies external.
It’s not just the magas - they are a lost cause. It’s also the people who can’t be buggered to educate themselves about the system of government, who believe the president can wave his hand and make a war disappear and change the military industrial complex that is the US. Who whine and hold the entire country ransom to their virtue signalling. Who think their feelings are more important than the collective well being.
Remember our oligarch masters have invested over a trillion dollars into a multimedia empire to fuck their brains in the first place using what is nothing less than mind control or brainwashing techniques.
In the old days, we regulated services that took advantage of common human bias (such as gambling). But in this era, even gambling is AOK in all fifty states (so long as it’s sports apps or lootboxes)
That 20-Minutes-Into-The-Future cyberpunk dystopia that scared Orwell and Stephenson and Gibson is here. (—1138)
The US is still supposed to regulate inciting speech, but not when it’s backed by a closet full of blue-haired lawyers.
good goose