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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Social status, social groups, education. Don't lose all your empathy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Conservatives in general are more susceptible to disinformation as they are in perpetual fear of outgroups and so have higher threat sensitivity. They are much more likely to believe content that is emotionally rather than factually driven.

The only cure to that is education. Unfortunately, neoliberalism has concentrated wealth amongst a global elite that want to make sure they have an easily manipulatable population that will continue to vote against their own interests when a little fear mongering is dangled in front of their faces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Couldn't have put it better myself.