This is the follow-up post from https://lemmy.world/post/50041395
Edit: this crazy removed got banned from multiple airlines. https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/airline-bans-sky-evangelist-for-annoying-passengers/
This is the follow-up post from https://lemmy.world/post/50041395
Edit: this crazy removed got banned from multiple airlines. https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/airline-bans-sky-evangelist-for-annoying-passengers/
probably voted trump
Oh you know for sure she did.
Fundy Karen there definitely believes he’s Jesus reincarnated.
I can’t tell for sure but she looks somewhat attractive. I guarantee she thinks she’s attractive. And people who think they’re attractive don’t vote. They think they live in a different world and aren’t effected by such matters.
… The hell?
I don’t know what else to tell you. Most people don’t vote, but no vain person is standing in line for two hours.
How on earth did you get such a jaded and bitter outlook?
I once had to stand in line to vote for six hours.
And that turned you into an incel?
This has nothing to do with gender, but very intriguing that you would go there.
“Pretty privilege” is the term they use and is what you’re expressing here - that “attractive people” are so vain and favoured by society that they can exist in a bubble where they don’t have to engage with reality. It’s a concept that’s absolutely fundemental to incel culture and is not gendered. The recent “looksmaxxing” trend is one of the more prominent expressions of the concept and is almost entirely masculine.
Bizarre
Not really. Are you telling me vain people have a great sense of civic pride?
I’m pretty and I vote. 🤷
I don’t think feeling pretty is the same as being vain, though.
Thank you for voting.
I’m vain, and I vote.
You’ve been called out thoroughly here. Accept it. You’re wrong.
As well as being vain, I also say stupid shit on the internet. I find it’s a better practice to laugh and shrug it off when my bullshit goes awry.
Called out? OK, now I am definitely laughing and shrugging it off. Thanks for that.
Yaknow, people who have actually shrugged things off don’t do it performatively. That’s how shrugging things off works.
Thinking you’re pretty is the same thing as thinking you’re attractive, though.
I’m telling you that you have a weird hangup, probably rooted in jealousy. There’s no reason for anyone to think civic engagement is in any way coupled with “vanity”.
It’s not a hangup, just an observation. You don’t have to agree, and I’m not saying it’s the fucking law that vain people can’t vote.
But they don’t. If they can’t take a selfie in the voting booth then it ain’t gonna happen buddy.
This is a classic hangup. There’s literally no possible way you could know this, but you’re certain of it. Not only that, but you brought it up when it had nothing to do with anything. Kinda a sign you’re fixated on the idea.
Eh. I’m just interested in human psychology, so while you think it had “nothing to do with anything” to you, it did have meaning to me. And it’s preposterous to think there’s no way to know how human psychology is reflected at the ballot box.
I mean I only made an observation, but it’s not like it has no basis in reality. I just think it makes intuitive sense to conclude that individuals who are highly self-absorbed wouldn’t necessarily care about a collective, relatively anonymous civic duty like voting. Vain people probably love the *stage *of politics, but they are far less interested in the *chore *of voting.
So I’m not saying vain people AS A WHOLE skip elections. In fact I think the opposite there, that they are likely to be much more vocal in the political sphere. Narcissistic political participation is largely driven by a desire for a captive audience and public recognition. Activities like protesting, posting on social media, or aggressively debating are highly visible. In contrast, the act of voting in a democratic election is intentionally anonymous. An election ballot offers no audience, no applause, and no opportunity to publicly demonstrate superiority.
So when you isolate the physical, logistical act of **voting **from the rest of the political sphere, the behavior of highly vain or narcissistic individuals trends toward disinterest in the process. Vain individuals often possess a grandiose sense of self-importance and believe their direct intervention is required to fix things. The realization that their single vote carries the exact same mathematical weight as millions of other voters can feel insulting to their sense of authority.
Sorry, no.
That’s very much not the same thing as the claim you actually made, which was:
And they’re both deeply spurious claims to make. Self absorbed assholes absolutely still vote, their reasons for voting (likely, at least. Voter behavior models aren’t super reliable) just change from social interests to personal ones.
…my point exactly?
Are you a psychologist who has studied this for a few years? What observations are you basing this on?
Because what it sounds like to me is that you took a mediocre idea at best and tried to push it past the “hypothesis” stage because it feels right to you. The fact that an attractive woman acting crazy brings perceived shitty voters to your mind does say something about you, but it doesn’t really relate to this post at all. You may as well have brought up quantum psychics because you don’t think enough attractive people are in that field or something…
Do a study on it, have it peer reviewed, publish it and let’s see where it goes.
Right now all you have is a hunch based on no data.