Passenger on Nostr: npub1d7jhh…lu8xc There's a thing people do, sometimes, when they think their "side" ...
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There's a thing people do, sometimes, when they think their "side" is going to lose: instead of working to fix it, they start to lay the groundwork for a narrative that absolves them personally of guilt. You see this a lot in corporate environments.
Right now in the UK, the Conservative Party is full of people doing this. They're building the narrative that "we should be doing X", so that when they lose the next election they can say "I said we should do X and I wasn't listened to, the fault is with the people who didn't do X." (In the case of the Conservative Party, X is mostly full-on fascist stuff like brutalising refugees, deporting minorities, making life ever-worse for trans people and - for some of them - moving to ban abortion.)
When I see online Biden Guys shouting at people to vote, I get the sense that they're doing the same thing.
It's not persuasive to you and it isn't intended to be: it's intended first and foremost as self-persuasion, to make them feel absolved, and then secondarily to try to win influence among other Biden Guys in the post-defeat disaster.
There's a thing people do, sometimes, when they think their "side" is going to lose: instead of working to fix it, they start to lay the groundwork for a narrative that absolves them personally of guilt. You see this a lot in corporate environments.
Right now in the UK, the Conservative Party is full of people doing this. They're building the narrative that "we should be doing X", so that when they lose the next election they can say "I said we should do X and I wasn't listened to, the fault is with the people who didn't do X." (In the case of the Conservative Party, X is mostly full-on fascist stuff like brutalising refugees, deporting minorities, making life ever-worse for trans people and - for some of them - moving to ban abortion.)
When I see online Biden Guys shouting at people to vote, I get the sense that they're doing the same thing.
It's not persuasive to you and it isn't intended to be: it's intended first and foremost as self-persuasion, to make them feel absolved, and then secondarily to try to win influence among other Biden Guys in the post-defeat disaster.