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Is there a more common term for that? I think it's a huge problem in polling. I googled and I didn't make much progress. I found this...

Expressive Responding in Support of Donald Trump: An Extended Replication of Schaffner and Luks (2018) | Collabra: Psychology | University of California Press

There is considerable debate about whether survey respondents regularly engage in "expressive responding" – professing to believe something that they do not sincerely believe to show support for their in-group or hostility to an out-group.

The problem is that "expressive responding" is a technical term. At Wikipedia I searched for "expressive responding" (in double quotes) and I got zero results.

Of course that mental mindset is big deal when it comes to Trump. A recent example - Lots of Republicans suddenly think the economy wasn't that bad after all. There's not exactly a "debate" when it comes to Trump and republican voters. They always do it when Trump is involved. It's not a coincidence that the election always causes a rapid change in what they say they believe.

Need to listen to more Spanish!

Would greatly prefer LatAm over Spain

And not just straight like daily/weekly news

I listen and watch more in Spanish than English at this point just need a podcast to round things out

Literally any mention of some supposed 'western civilization' or 'western culture'. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that's what you believe in. Fucking coward

His diet is horrid. He only eats McDonald's, and maybe KFC, but i'm not too sure. He only drinks coca cola. He's probably being pumped full of every fucking drug imaginable. There's no way in hell this man is not on his death bed

I swear to fucking god, HR exists to stand between me and my money.

Placed with my son for adoption, and I need to put him on my insurance rolls since he's no longer eligible for Medicaid. But he's not officially adopted yet, so my company won't put him on my plan. Meanwhile, I'm being told he's not covered by Medicaid anymore either.

And when I've got a dozen doctor's visits a month for all his preemie care, these bills are going to pile up fast.

Fuck this stupid backwards broken system and its iron curtain of bureaucracy keeping me from what I'm due.

Honestly I'm mostly just venting, others already replied, and then we got the inevitable "well okay if it's that big of a deal you don't need to tiptoe around it" post in response, but does anyone else have a playbook for dealing with this tactfully but directly?

These are people who are not wreckers, just sort of naive, as far as I can tell, but of course you can't know for sure. They've said shit like "well then where am I supposed to I'm a revolutionary, I'm not afraid of anything" (phrased a tiny bit nicer) in response to being told "hey keep in mind these chats are almost certainly monitored"

its like, hey, obviously people are being cagey because they don't want to denounce direct action, but also don't want you to blow up the aboveground org by being needlessly purposefully reckless in communicating about your planned heavily implied crimes. But I don't even want to explain that head-on because in that response I'd also be endorsing direct action in a semi-public forum, or tiptoeing around it the same way the other responders did. Like I want to say, and would say if we were in person, that this is an aboveground org and that you can probably use this as a network to find likeminded individuals but you're going to have to build out a little bit of trust by talking to them in DMs or in person and put together a smaller group that's not directly attached to the org, because we can't have your grudge blowing up the whole thing.

How hard is it to chat one-on-one and form a smaller more trusted group? Just because you don't fear repression doesn't mean you shouldn't take any precautions jfc

people are way too fucking open about their feelings and internet-brained, feeling like "well if I can't fedpost in this specific groupchat then where am I supposed to do it???"

I mean fuck maybe they are wreckers. But I feel like its usually marginalized people who are most like this, maybe because of feeling like they have nothing to lose, so I don't feel like we should just push them away either

I could message them privately but ultimately then 1) I've got a target on my back if they are wreckers and 2) I feel like I'm basically whitesplaining to them

Not asking for any specific purpose, just that it'd suck if all that was lost because threw a tantrum.

The redirect part being toward appreciation of workers' efforts and accomplishments despite their corporate circumstances

I personally can't see it as anything other than being a lackey for cops.

i ask this as a half indian guy from the US. I don't particularly find white women attractive and none of the indian dudes in my friends circle worship them like we are depicted as doing. its so dumb

God lol, white mayo people are so vain.

Yes guys we all worship you and cant get enough of everything about you, including white women / big S

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6292756

let's give each other something to cry about that heals instead of hurts ❤️ what silly thing makes happy tears spring up in your eyes?

awards ceremonies always get me, no matter how mundane – I was the weird 4H mom applauding and wiping away tears about every kid, not just her own 😂🙃

love seeing someone open a gift they're genuinely super excited about

commercials often get me, too

Like being able to read Arabic without understanding what it says

It has to be somewhere inside my car, as in inside the cab or whatever, because of reasons.

Looking to host a personal website. A couple static pages and an instance of FoundryVTT. Maybe a wiki. Single digit users for the foreseeable future.

Like…I have some things I have vague interest in, I guess.
But not anything I have ever put time into, or am good at, or am knowledgeable enough to hold a conversation.

Maybe I’m just depressed…maybe I’ve always been depressed…or maybe I’m just missing some kind of spark most other humans have.

Like how does someone just know or decide like…”yeah I’m really into architecture.”?
I don’t know if I’ve ever felt like that…I feel like I’ve tried and it’s never lasted.

I feel like I’ve spent half my life just addicted to social media and video games and that’s no longer working.

Turkey should be invaded by a coalition of Syria, Armenia, Russia, Kurdistan and Iran for it's crimes against the Kurds, Armenians and it's support of the Palestinian genocide. I can't believe Erdogan gets away with pretending to support Palestine while materially aiding Israel. Fucking hell, put this opportunist down already. The Kurdish rebels should car bomb him, IRA style

I have some suspicions, but I’d like to learn a bit more about the actual process. When the US sends another x billion in military aid to Israel, how does that physically go down?

My guess is that money is magicked up into some account out of thin air, and then is sent to mostly US defense contractors to pay them welfare to ship weapons and munitions to Israel. Added to that would be DOD budgets for operations to support them in theatre, etc.

So basically my assumption is that the whole process is basically a giveaway to defense contractors, at the expense of the entire country, either by wasting tax dollars or creating more money supply which contributes to inflation and other fun things. I also keep seeing headlines about bills to stop “weapons sales to Israel” but it confuses me because my understanding is that most of it is being given to them and they’re not buying anything. (I guess we’re giving them money and they then buy from the defense contractors?)

Anyway, lots of vague speculations and assumptions, hoping someone knows better or has a good source for me to read to educate myself.