• WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    What is it about the American psyche that cannot help but read criticism as malicious?

    I lived in the US briefly, and work with several Americans- and, man, if “immediate, inordinately hostile defensive posture toward the suggestion they’re wrong/have made a mistake” isn’t the single clearest through-line…

    It’s… not shocking that Trump and MAGA are running the show.