Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@Piousunyn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Piousunyn</span></a></span> </p><p>it's a human <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> hack dovetailing into a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> play:</p><p>you beat someone on the street, they run away, they fight back</p><p>you lock someone in a cage and you beat them daily: they give up, they adopt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learnedhelplessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learnedhelplessness</span></a>, and hew to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abuser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuser</span></a>. simply to reduce their beatings</p><p>you can rule through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> or you can rule through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a></p><p>and people are giving up on consent as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> eats it away. perversely, many then flock to the monster killing them</p>