Someone called a 'Fire Drill' on #GGinDC

I started picking up how predictable they are when I viewed them in a different light, when I tried to understand how their minds work. While my thoughts should be taken with a grain of salt since I'm no professional, I do wish to share them in hopes they might be enlightening to someone.

This isn't about being right to them, this is about going to WAR. They want to fight, the modern world is boring and our brains evolved to survive in a world that had tigers hiding in bushes. They are looking for conflict and to fight, but NO ONE ever 'wants' to be the bad guy, we do things that we think are just, the reason why they believe in 'no bad tactics' is because they actually have some primal part of their brain that wants them to actually KILL us, but they know that's not okay to kill in cold blood, but they will do whatever it takes to get conflict. This why they try to 'take over' places and then move on, because they're not in it for Athiesm, comics, BDSM, or video games, they're in it to win a 'war'. Knowing this their tactics make sense, spying, infiltration, threats, harassment, and doing anything to hurt us (including shutting down our attempts at discussion). As the saying goes, 'all is fair in love and war', and in the absence of actual conflict, they have a primal need that goes unfulfilled and so they imagine wars, they warp their understanding of reality for internet comments to be attacks in order to fuel this, to 'hurt' and be 'hurt' in return. Now, not ALL of them are as crazy and lost in this imaginary war nonsense as others, but it only takes one to pull the fire alarm, it only takes one to make a bomb threat, you only need one of them to be fighting this war so much that they harm people who just want to hang out, we all have bad apples, but what is telling is how they lap up the results of this, how a number of them will take pleasure seeing the results of stuff like this bomb threat, to know that they enjoy seeing 'damage' done to the 'enemy'.

But it should be noted, this drive for conflict is not exclusive to them, be wary of those who are a touch too quick to get involved in the drama, who take more pleasure in seeing a LW get salty then they do seeing an advertiser pulling away from say Kotaku, after-all we all evolved from the same apes.

But those are just my thoughts, take them for what they are!

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