It's like the ending of Cabin in the Woods The game-theoretic logic of spite If there's no room for me in the future, then the future's gotta go If I don't fit into the story, then the story ends here
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Yes, and Arthur, as you may distinctly recall I consider that an indefensibly evil, vile position and cordially invite it to fuck off and die.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
That is the selfish, venomous spite of a goddamn child, and if people had not, throughout their lives, placed the welfare of others before their own to *some* degree at critical moments, none of us would be here. So no, I don't particularly respect that. That is THE MAGA logic.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
pretty sure this isn't the maga logic; the maga logic is "this is a white christian country / brown people are scary and must be put in their place" a logic of dominance and hierarchy
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
Yeah what do you think the reptile brain "I will smash everything if I don't get what I want?" is? And honestly, I see a LOT of this much vaunted spite in the whole "the cruelty is the point" phenomenon
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
i dunno call me crazy but i'm not sure that fear of equality and rage at being made subordinate are the same emotion
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
but "to those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" that doesn't mean it *is* oppression, but it does mean that they *feel* like something is being taken from them
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Replying to @KittenBalerion @perdricof and
Yes, thank you. this is not about *justification*, this is about *impulse*. this is about the motivating fire, the origin of the desire to persecute in the first place.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @KittenBalerion and
*shrug* Hatred is one of the core animating impulses of all human beings, a movement or organization that doesn't tap into it at all is one that's only half-alive Hate, as they say, is the other side of the coin we call love If you don't hate anyone you don't really love either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Alexander Cockburn famously had as his litmus test question for interns he hired at Counterpunch, "Is your hate pure?" He told a story about asking this question to Ed Miliband and Miliband sputtering "I don't -- I've never hated anyone!"
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And said that in that moment it was obvious to him that New Labour would fail in all its goals, and obvious exactly how it would fail
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KittenBalerion and
Yeah, honestly, I consider that all edgelord posturing to lionize people's giving in to their worst impulses because it makes them feel good.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
This is the exact same thing as the Green Lantern theory of politics; that which makes me feel good, which soothes my fury in the face of an unjust world and gives me a sense of moral purity and power, is automatically efficacious and good, not that which actually gets results.
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