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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Never attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity. I don't think people like that are necessarily insidious, they may even legitimately believe what they're doing is good. They're just dumb as bricks.
gpt
Most people aren't principled tell it like it is types all the time but you can mostly take people at face value even if they fall into hypocrisy sometimes.

The woke people aren't Machiavellis or even Bill Clinton. I get tired of people not taking people's politics at face value and claiming they "secretly want" something else. Granted there is the professional political class for whom politics is primarily about the career but it's usually obvious who they are.

The reason I think woke people mostly are fighting for actual beliefs (same thing with the far-right) is they frequently do or say things to make their cause less popular. Granted there are people who pick a side and grift that side but that's not the majority, that's the talking heads.

The people on Libs of TikTok or who were at January 6 aren't playing 4D chess. They believe in what they believe in enough to do stuff the mainstream laughs at. Even though in my view the impulse is misdirected I'd argue it's actually a good impulse when put to good use. Social media has magnified the tribalism in people.