Starting to agree with rp

Personal_Dirt3089 · 2025-01-21T21:07:23+00:00

Let me guess: they said some things that touched on grievances or just put you in a worse mood and made you feel helpless and vulnerable, then claimed this proved their points, even if there is zero connection between the grievances and their conclusions?

KayRay1994 · 2025-01-21T21:04:04+00:00

Why have you started agreeing with it?

xvszero · 2025-01-21T22:00:32+00:00

Go back to thinking they are dumb.

17thfloorelevators · 2025-01-21T21:04:43+00:00

Stop watching. If you're looking for a good book series to read instead, try Old Mans War or Hardcore History. Both will scratch that itch for masculinity without rp theology.

Chili440 · 2025-01-21T21:45:20+00:00

I quite often don't watch content I don't like.

AssistTemporary8422 · 2025-01-21T22:34:42+00:00

What points do you agree with? The first step is to logically evaluate whether their points are reasonable. The second is the understand your emotional reasons for being attracted to their views.

ThatOtherGuyTPM · 2025-01-21T22:28:57+00:00

What has brought you to the rabbit hole?

Sagecerulli · 2025-01-22T00:58:37+00:00

Remember that the more people hear something repeated, the more likely they are to begin believing it. (This is basically how propaganda works).

So get off those pages as fast as you can.

SufficientDot4099 · 2025-01-22T22:26:21+00:00

Learn logic and critical thinking. Use your brain Go outside. Read books from qualified authors.

VisceralSardonic · 2025-01-24T19:02:38+00:00

Everyone in the world is looking for something. Redpill offers something to many people, and based on modern, monetized content, make sure that they can be seen as helpful for some of the most basic gaps in human experience. Basic self-improvement knowledge (create good habits, be confident, etc.) is usually mixed with a lot of generalizations and ragebait to keep their content circulating and keep you digging deeper. They learn their viewers, present a (again, VERY monetized) appeal to their base about how no one else has solved their problems, and offer themselves as the magic solution. If you know what you’re seeking, you can work to find a better solution than the redpill “magic beans” that get magically thrown at you by the algorithm. For example—

Many people find RP because they’re lonely and find a community of people in RP who think like them and welcome them.

Many people are looking for indications that the place they’re in is not their fault, and RP is full of conveniently unfair paradigms that scream “the world is unfair, you deserve better, but the rules are stacked against you.”

Other people want to stop hurting, improve their lot in life, justify previous trauma they had to go through, feel more powerful, simplify the complicated world to easy rules that explain everything, justify unfair treatment they see others going through, find a community, make money off of the community, or even just kill time. There’s usually overlap between a lot of these, and each individual red pill person may have used any combination of these and hundreds of other small reasons to justify their beliefs.

What are you seeking? Your subconscious may be looking for different things than you’re aware of consciously, so therapy, journaling, exercises in self-awareness, etc. will help you figure that out. From there, figure out how you’re trying to achieve each goal and whether that solution is adaptive (actually solving the problem, not causing you new problems or putting off the problem for later) or maladaptive/harmful/ineffective (not solving the problem, causing more problems, etc.). Redpill is very very frequently maladaptive, since it uses a lot of cognitive distortions (it’s worth looking those up too), preaches pseudoscience and hate, and creates an extreme “it’s you vs them and no one really understands you but us” mentality that separates you from any actual support system.

TLDR: therapy, self awareness, and researching snake oil sales techniques

2omeon3 · 2025-01-28T18:53:17+00:00

You can't avoid "going down the rabbit hole" when you notice patterns and their logical conclusions

Title	Starting to agree with rp
Author	harlemhellraiser
Upvotes	0
Comments	13
Date	January 21, 2025 8:57 PM UTC (1 year ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/ExRedPill
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