• El Barto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I recently came to a different conclusion. It’s not religious faith. It’s just faith. And it’s not a mental illness. It’s human nature - for a significant segment of the human population.

    Those people who are religious fanatics, political fanatics (e.g. Trumpists, Chavez sympathizers), pseudoscience fanatics (e.g. flat earthers, anti-vaxx, homeopathy), celebrity fanatics (Andrew Tate followers), etc, they have to share the same common traits. They’re impressionable people, they need to be patt of a group, and they can’t fathom the idea of switching groups.

    It’s just that religion-based control came first.

    Or maybe those who were very religious in the past got to survive and thus the genetic traits responsible for fanaticism spread like fire?

    Regardless, it’s appalling.

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        Like Hugo Chavez? Are there any people who care enough about him who arent Venezuelan?

        Like Tito, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Che Guevara are all infinitely more valid than fucking Chavez.

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          I’ve been an internet socialist for a long time and I have no idea why you think Venezuelans, specifically, are a big problem on the internet.

          Maybe the people you hate aren’t really a cult of personality, but it makes you feel better to think about them that way?