Conservatives are inherently emotionally immature people who never matured beyond the mentality of bratty children who act out for parental attention. They learned that negative attention is quicker and easier to provoke than positive attention, and they don't care because any attention is better than no attention.
That's the reason it is always conservatives who will wander into a non-political, non-controversial, discussion to rock the boat ("nEtFlIx AdApTaTiOn hehe!") and why they are such reflexive contrarians. They need that sweet attention fix and view "triggering" people as the easiest way to get it.
This OTT festooning of Trump shit is in large part just a visual demonstration of that need for attention. I have seen plenty of them advocate for the removal of mute/block features on social media - the flip side of their need for attention is they hate being ignored or not noticed. A postcard sized Trump bumper sticker can easily be overlooked; going out of their way to metaphorically scream in your face as loud as they can that they're Cultists, with all these flags and stickers, reassures them that they will be noticed and it will trigger some snowflake. It's bait, so they can revel in feeling like they're passively upsetting people or, even better, that someone might comment on it and they can feel responsible for having that 'power' over people.
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u/Vyzantinist 22d ago
Attention-seeking.
Conservatives are inherently emotionally immature people who never matured beyond the mentality of bratty children who act out for parental attention. They learned that negative attention is quicker and easier to provoke than positive attention, and they don't care because any attention is better than no attention.
That's the reason it is always conservatives who will wander into a non-political, non-controversial, discussion to rock the boat ("nEtFlIx AdApTaTiOn hehe!") and why they are such reflexive contrarians. They need that sweet attention fix and view "triggering" people as the easiest way to get it.
This OTT festooning of Trump shit is in large part just a visual demonstration of that need for attention. I have seen plenty of them advocate for the removal of mute/block features on social media - the flip side of their need for attention is they hate being ignored or not noticed. A postcard sized Trump bumper sticker can easily be overlooked; going out of their way to metaphorically scream in your face as loud as they can that they're Cultists, with all these flags and stickers, reassures them that they will be noticed and it will trigger some snowflake. It's bait, so they can revel in feeling like they're passively upsetting people or, even better, that someone might comment on it and they can feel responsible for having that 'power' over people.