The amount of times I've been talking to some friends and I'll make a prediction or make an observation on what's going to happen in a political situation (or what to focus on), get disagreed with and called a tankie or pessimist or whatever, and then I'm correct 3 months later is driving me mad. Of course, they then start saying they need to protest against that or whatever. You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn't hard to be correct on, I'm just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you'd start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what's different between you and them????
Example: telling them ukraine has a nazi problem???? Why was this difficult.
It might just be me or something (likely) but it seems like it's a trend across the states.
You ever hear the story about the time Target figured out a woman was pregnant before her family did?
The reason they did that is because people are creatures of habit and through data mining they've determined that there are certain times in people's lives that they are more open to big changes. Kind of a marketing cheat code they figured out.
Now think of how hard it can be for people to convince themselves to start working out, eating right, not procrastinating. :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2: And you and I expect them to completely change their worldview and the institutions they trust after a couple of conversations when everything else in the world is telling them otherwise. It sucks, but it also kinda makes sense when you think about the big picture like that.