"By promoting conspiracy theories, narcissistic leaders can cause significant societal harm—be it discouraging political engagement, encouraging unhealthy beliefs and behaviors (e.g., the anti-vaccination movement), discrimination, or acts of violence."

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[–]Optimus85Independent 18 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 5 fun -  (23 children)

Only an absolute retard with zero self-awareness would post this shit. Or a paid social media influencer. Go gaslight somewhere else, your smelly socks are stinking up the place.

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    [–]Optimus85Independent 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I'm smart enough to discern BS from facts. Remember when 9 out of 10 doctors recommended Marlboros in the 50s? Those were alleged ''smart'' people.

    [–]pretty_innocuous 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

    Ok pal, you do realize arguments from authority or consensus don't make something true? If it were otherwise, Xi Jinping would be the world's cultural guru and the PRC the best and only form of government.

    Frankly it sounds like you barely qualify as a mid-wit.

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      [–]pretty_innocuous 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      smarter than the writers

      Researchers noted

      Indeed - fuck facts, science, pychology, psychiatry and all that hot trash.

      Here's three examples of your appeals to authority in this thread alone.

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        [–]Optimus85Independent 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        Astroturf much?

        [–]FourteenDigitz 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Lmao, what a copout. You think this barely-populated Reddit knockoff is important enough to be astroturfed?

        [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        Xi Jinping would be the world's cultural guru and the PRC the best and only form of government.

        Yes.jpg

        [–]Insider 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Ironically, the Chinese may be the most truth-based group out there along with the Russians.

        Although they prop up their own government, they also admit that their style of governing wouldn't be suitable for Western civilization.

        [–]FourteenDigitz 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        You still aren't actually expanding on how it's wrong. You're just resorting to insults. Sad.

        [–]Insider 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

        The writers of that article wrote an opinionated review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22001051

        Based on past studies, the authors associated paranoia with believing in conspiracies. They also associate paranoia with vulnerable narcissism. However, there's a logical fallacy with this logic:

        For instance, say all vulnerable narcissists are paranoid, but not all paranoids are narcissists. Meaning you can have 50% of paranoid conspiracy believers being non-narcissists and 50% being narcissists. The narcissists are the ones more likely to believe everything based off of their own bias, but what about the other 50%?

        Furthermore, it's natural for people with paranoia to be skeptical. Why don't they relate conspiracy believers with skepticism? Because that's the main driver, not paranoia. You can be skeptical without being paranoid.

        [–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        Why don't they relate conspiracy believers with skepticism?

        The only explanation is the obvious one. This is intended to be insulting in order to discourage conspiracy theories. It is simply propaganda.

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        It's more than that. In the Orwellian world of 2030, if your mind harbors "non-mainstream thoughts", studies such as these might be used to warrant putting you on strong psychiatric medications. It will come to that, if we let it. I promise.

        [–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        the thousands at Reddit who also found this assessment interesting.

        The absolute absurdity of this comment can't be over stated. Reddit is a propaganda platform. The votes counts are fake. It's full of bots, and opposition gets censored.

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          [–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          Reddit CEO was caught red handed changing vote counts years ago. You can bet they do it regularly and have automates the process. Only an absolute fool would trust the vote counts in a website so completely without morals and so militant about pushing propaganda.

          [–]CreditKnifeMan 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

          OP is probably a bot.

          [–]jet199 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

          More likely a sock

          [–]Canbot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          Most likely u/socks