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Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse (wapo.st)

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Some Trump supporters who invested in his social media company have seen their share values plunge -— and see it as a test of faith

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Nothing like integrating religion, politics, and finance into one big ball of disappointment. Good luck with that.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

This type of person doesn't particularly like any sort of de-integrated thinking in my experience. If you think of something in one way, then everything else ends up being thought of in a similar fashion. That's partly how you end up with so much entertainment media influence in their day-to-day considerations of more real, serious matters.

Once you add in avoidance of things you'd rather not think about, it ends up as a very low cognitive dissonance load, which I think is a major part of the appeal.