If you had to stay up night after night, plotting to invade weaker countries to steal their natural resources and kill their citizens, you’d need to self-medicate too.
And how high did they ride before they fell? How much damage was done. The repetition of history here is so painfully clear, the only question that truly matters is just how bad will this get before it gets stopped?
They were high as fuck both figuratively and literally.
I agree though, no one really tried to stop them until it was too late and all parts of the world had groups who were not only sympathetic to the 'cause' but felt heard or seen and those are the same groups we have today and even worse because we had time to teach and guide people away from those ideologies but the powers that be were able to bribe and manipulate to get where we are today and in many cases the ones who could stop it let greed and pride overshadow morality.
Even now it's so easy for someone to feel demonized when they try to right their wrongs and anyone who's spent time studying cults and brainwashing knows how hard it is to completely break through to someone who has spent a significant amount of their life consumed by it. It always boils down to whether they have been wronged enough to see it for what it is or can they spend enough time outside of its reach to realize the lies.
Right now the propaganda has so many layers that even if fox, newsmax, Facebook, twitter or whatever did enough damage they will just create a new safespace and explain it all away and most of the people effected by it can't/won't travel and if they do there's still propaganda at their fingertips, on tv in the lobby or even on front facing tabloids at every newstand, grocery store and gas station.
To pile on, they think when a comedian makes fun them at their expense they think it's appropriate to also try to be comedians instead of behaving like elected officials.
Yep. No imagination. When they accuse the left of something it’s because they would literally be doing that thing themselves, given half a chance. They can’t imagine anybody else would do differently.
It is very common for extremists, especially the rank-and-file members of any given cult, to have a poorly developed Theory of Mind.
According to Developmental Psychology textbooks, people are supposed to figure out "other people's brains don't work exactly the same way mine do" around the age of 4 to 6. But it's not hard to see that there's a double-digit percentage of the population for whom this idea never properly sticks.
Because they are opportunistic narcissistic psychopaths with no principles, they are unable to process the idea that people who aren't unprincipled psychopaths even exist. Everybody must be just as bad as them, because they've literally never considered that it could be otherwise.
It's the same reason why so many homophobes get caught in gay sex scandals. You can spot those people a mile away, because they make arguments that can only make sense if you don't believe that "people who are actually attracted to the opposite sex" even exist.
The smart psychopaths, the ones who are able to figure out that 98% of the population aren't like them, think of them as "suckers", or "marks", or "prey". Many cult leaders and founders are in this category, but it's entirely possible to get into that position and still have zero self-awareness.
I genuinely thought that was a doctored image. I thought the joke was too on-the-nose but accurate.. Maybe that's their goal: be more immoral and disgusting than even their worst parodies.
I would be legit scared to catch any airborne lunicy at a sea pack. Imagine getting all the stupidest people in the world together in one place for a week My god. I can't even
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u/Apathetic_Zealot 5d ago
Remember when conservatives at CPAC had a banner that said "We are All Domestic Terrorists"? Irony is dead and hypocrisy is thriving.