I hope there’s a world where thos matters and they all eat shit and face consequences.
Like, this should be cut and dry.
Oh, and also Trump’s latest comments on tariffs on Canada follow the same pattern, first it was"fentenyl", now they’ve dropped the veneer forgetting that national security arguments were the only argument they had to justify things.
To me that says they’re either wildly overconfident or know they’ve got the supreme court by the balls.
I think fascists see violating boundaries, hypocrisy, and telling lies as signs of power - ie, things to aspire to in their twisted minds. That’s dangerous, and not how non-fascists think.
Mainstream traditional and social media have devolved to simply publishing verbatim what the fascists say without offering any kind of context or evaluation of, say, the truthfulness of the statement-now-headline.
I agree with you all around otherwise. I just don’t think this behaviour rests on overconfidence or an appraisal of riskiness via the SC. I think it’s psychologically must deeper, and recognizing this will help us deal with them better
I think fascists see violating boundaries, hypocrisy, and telling lies as signs of power - ie, things to aspire to in their twisted minds. That’s dangerous, and not how non-fascists think.
But it nicely fits an adjacent conservative mindset: “We need laws to keep bad guys (others) from doing bad things, not to prevent good guys (us) from doing good things.”
It’s not that they view them as arbitrary signs of power to aspire to, it’s that those things really do work well to manipulate others into doing what you want. Detaching a victim from reality - making them instead blindly believe what you say - turns them into a very useful tool. Usually people have a conscious and don’t want to manipulate others to get ahead, but there will always be some who simply don’t care, and they end up being the ones to amass more power and influence than their peers as a result.
I think it’s even more than just they see them as signs of power. I think continuously ramping things up is power. If the last thing wasn’t enough to stop them, what’s one more step? This continues ad infinitum. They keep ratcheting up, and there’s nothing to bring it back down.
I hope there’s a world where thos matters and they all eat shit and face consequences.
Like, this should be cut and dry.
Oh, and also Trump’s latest comments on tariffs on Canada follow the same pattern, first it was"fentenyl", now they’ve dropped the veneer forgetting that national security arguments were the only argument they had to justify things.
To me that says they’re either wildly overconfident or know they’ve got the supreme court by the balls.
I think fascists see violating boundaries, hypocrisy, and telling lies as signs of power - ie, things to aspire to in their twisted minds. That’s dangerous, and not how non-fascists think.
Mainstream traditional and social media have devolved to simply publishing verbatim what the fascists say without offering any kind of context or evaluation of, say, the truthfulness of the statement-now-headline.
I agree with you all around otherwise. I just don’t think this behaviour rests on overconfidence or an appraisal of riskiness via the SC. I think it’s psychologically must deeper, and recognizing this will help us deal with them better
But it nicely fits an adjacent conservative mindset: “We need laws to keep bad guys (others) from doing bad things, not to prevent good guys (us) from doing good things.”
It’s not that they view them as arbitrary signs of power to aspire to, it’s that those things really do work well to manipulate others into doing what you want. Detaching a victim from reality - making them instead blindly believe what you say - turns them into a very useful tool. Usually people have a conscious and don’t want to manipulate others to get ahead, but there will always be some who simply don’t care, and they end up being the ones to amass more power and influence than their peers as a result.
I think it’s even more than just they see them as signs of power. I think continuously ramping things up is power. If the last thing wasn’t enough to stop them, what’s one more step? This continues ad infinitum. They keep ratcheting up, and there’s nothing to bring it back down.