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The Sunken Cost Fallacy

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The sunken cost fallacy is when a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it. We've spent $100,000 we can't stop now but it can be more insidious than that.
Someone tells you trans people are corrupting children and you believe them. You post horrible things, you protest, you support politicians who will attack, and...
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headshot:
When a politician builds his course on hatred of a certain cohort of people, it is disgusting. People with weak critical thinking abilities always need to hate or condemn someone. Because this is the easiest topic to discuss, not like economics, education, personal responsibility

Trans Rights are Human Rights

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The years 38 and 66 in Alexandria, 1348 Toulon, 1391 Barcelona, Valentine's Day 1349 in Straussburg, over 500 communities between 1348 and 1350 across Europe, 1370 Brussels, 1389 Prague, 100,000 men women and children in modern day Ukraine between 1648 and 1657, 1770's Poland, 1790's Russia, 1800's Russia, 1900's Russia, and of course Germany in the 1930's and 40's. This isn't close to a full...
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jtelson:
@pistache Here in the US trans people are being targeted by our conservative extremists in government and media with a smear and disinformation campaign that mirrors the way anti-Semites throughout history have provokes lethal attacks on Jewish communities. This is happening to a level where is the combination of laws being put forward in Florida are passed just being outwardly trans in public will be against the law, and potentially punishable (not exaggerating) by death.
pistache:
That is terrible! It really makes me sad to know that.
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