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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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
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
If someone's got their boot on your neck, is it your worst impulses driving you to furiously claw that boot away? Is the best impulse to, like, respect and love the person choking you to death? I'm skeptical.
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Or take Samuel L. Jackson's attitude in A Time To Kill If someone rapes and kills your daughter, is it your *worst* impulse to say "Yes, they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
Honestly I think the *worst* impulse is to just let it go Afterschool specials tend to paint letting it go as an act of genuine mercy or empathy or whatever but in real life it clearly isn't Like anyone's actually looking into the eyes of the shitheels and seeing their souls
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
Letting it go is usually a matter of getting *tired*, of *giving up*, because it doesn't seem worth it anymore It's often a *selfish* decision -- "Well, I've got my own life to lead, other things to care about"
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