It’s better to think of it more like a virtue signalling club. It’s the epitome of in vs out group.
It doesn’t matter what your group beleives/say, but when someone in your group beleives or say something you’ve gotta do it +1. So they’re all trying to one up each other to be like “see I’m not one of them, I’m one of you… No actually, I’m more like you than you”
It’s actually, unfortunately, a very common/normal social group interaction. Like, everyone does it, but normally in small amounts, or about harmless topics.
E.g a bunch of metal heads talking about metal bands (which coincidentally all have death in the name) "I really like ‘mega death’ ", “yeah but they’re not as heavy as ‘death’”, “well they’ve got nothing on ‘napalm death’” etc.
It’s the actual terrifying result of online echo chambers. More extreme people egg each other on and get more extreme. And it’s ironically what they always accuse “the left/libs” of doing
It’s better to think of it more like a virtue signalling club. It’s the epitome of in vs out group.
It doesn’t matter what your group beleives/say, but when someone in your group beleives or say something you’ve gotta do it +1. So they’re all trying to one up each other to be like “see I’m not one of them, I’m one of you… No actually, I’m more like you than you”
It’s actually, unfortunately, a very common/normal social group interaction. Like, everyone does it, but normally in small amounts, or about harmless topics.
E.g a bunch of metal heads talking about metal bands (which coincidentally all have death in the name) "I really like ‘mega death’ ", “yeah but they’re not as heavy as ‘death’”, “well they’ve got nothing on ‘napalm death’” etc.
It’s the actual terrifying result of online echo chambers. More extreme people egg each other on and get more extreme. And it’s ironically what they always accuse “the left/libs” of doing