Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

Mostly, though, I talk about the seemingly-constant lies of the far right They talk about law and order but obscure their license plates They give impassioned speeches about peace and love in the morning, then beat unarmed Black Lives Matter counter-protesters in the afternoon

It's easy and tempting to dismiss these blatant contradictions as lies, hypocrisy, or grift. But that's not quite accurate The far right isn't lying--at least, in the sense that they absolutely believe every word they say when they say it

"Any asshole can lie. We've all been lied to, we know what it looks like. But how can you protect yourself against someone whose conception of truth has been replaced with something else, like a parasitic wasp devouring its host from the inside?"

"The intellectual parasite devours the eyes and the mind, morality and truth, and replaces it with a single, larval axiom: "We are always good. The enemy is always evil."

The sincerity traps people. It fools well-meaning reporters, enlightened centrists, even some liberals For a while, it fooled me too

Anyway, just some light fun reading while Oregon burns, enjoy (Thank you Anonymous Comrade for edits and wordsmithery)

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