it takes a lot of indoctrination and a lot of material rewards in order for people to have any reason to accept this bullshit so it works much better on the people at the top than it does on the people at the bottom
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surface compliance may be gained temporarily with the threat of punishment but it will be resented
aug 9, 2025, 11:32 am • 33 3 • view
it is assumed that escalating the level of punishment will make people more desperate for the reward of approval from and acceptance into the privileged elite but it doesn't it makes the promise of that reward both less believable and less appealing
aug 9, 2025, 12:02 pm • 23 4 • view
i think one of the hopes of liberal 'representation' politics is that people will see that someone from the same marginalised group as them is buying into it and believe that they can and therefore should get that for themselves too
aug 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 18 0 • view