My younger daughter’s devotion to one K-Pop band (and her extreme dislike of another K-Pop band, a dislike that extends to a collective dislike of the band’s fans) reminds me of my “Disco Sucks” days as a teenager in the 1970’s. So I have no right to judge. :-) #music#tribalism
«Experiments have revealed that “children as young as two will prefer other children randomly assigned to the same T-shirt color,” Christakis writes.
What’s most striking is that in the process of defining who is in and who is out of a group, enmity and derision can arise independently of any rational reason for it.» https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/01/20/polarization-science-evolution-psychology/
Could the inevitable #ClimateCrisis save humanity from itself?
#ClimateChange will affect every human on the planet in negative ways. The climate is global, there is no hiding from the Planet's climate
The effects of human-caused climate change are more extreme weather-related events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, forest fires, sea level rise, food shortages, & "plagues"
Humans tend to cooperate if they feel they are against some common enemy 🤔
There Is No Military Solution to the Crisis in #Israel and #Palestine
You can’t shrug off international law in the morning and then invoke it in the afternoon
#Netanyahu, who has a very extreme far-right government, who has been openly espousing genocidal ideas and talking about how they don’t want to deal with #Gaza anymore. Basically they’ve been calling for ethnic cleansing. They want to take the entire West Bank, and they are seeing their moment here.
"In an occasionally dark and profane speech, Donald Trump on Friday sought to win over Republicans in California by complaining that rich people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they’re denied water, reiterating lies about widespread election fraud and calling on police to shoot people robbing stores."
@ttpphd@WahbAllat implying to me that the "strong males" are abusing some females while choosing to protect others.
Or is it the "weak males" doing the abusing?
Whatever ... it's a sick version of society. #eww#power#privilege#tribalism
OC Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here?
It finally happened: many Reddit 3rd party apps have officially shut down. With it comes an influx of users looking for a new place....