• kromem@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s some people who are highly suggestible. Like to the point it’s arguably a disability.

    There was an interview with Trump supporters that captured one that other day that’s worth a look to understand what’s going on:

    https://youtu.be/Ud3btbISggA?t=06m08s

    You can watch as the person interviewing him about falling for scams over and over jokingly tells him to walk off in a given direction - and then the dude just starts to, until he realizes his car is in the other direction.

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      9 months ago

      I think that’s kind of misleading.

      It looks to me more like he is just looking in that direction (even if he does take a step or two). He was more asking/saying, well why should I go that way when my car is this way. Not, oh shit, my car is actually this way.

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        9 months ago

        If you watch the entire interview with him, I don’t think it’s at all misleading to portray him as highly suggestible.

        The dude falls over himself agreeing with whichever way the wind blows in an interview about how he keeps being taken advantage of by scams.

        In that broader context, him shuffling off several steps in the direction some guy jokingly told him to head off in really shouldn’t be discounted with a parenthetical.