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Comment by spencerflem

4 days ago

Genuinely, I think ~30% of Americans just like it when other people suffer. This might also be true of people in general

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cmurf  4 days ago

Yep. It's the illiberal authoritarians. The people who need hierarchy, for domination and submission. This is why equality is an scary abomination to them.

All societies have such people. But civil societies prevent them from gaining significant power. Failing that, it's going to be expensive.

This society elected a known abuser. Of course this society will be abused. But also because of this society's global power, the world will also be abused.

The_President  2 days ago

I'd like to see a study or more information that backs up this ~30% statement - That is alarming!

  • ric2b  2 days ago

    There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.