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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

"I don't understand the emotion"

Exactly like my dad on this. It's really simple, he likes Trump's crudeness, cruelty, insulting, and offensive behavior, and getting a rise of people for supporting him or repeating his most blatantly vile statements. It's juvenile fun to play around with.

He knows he's eating shit to make other people smell his breath. Everything past that is a justification slapped together. Ultimately nothing matters to them past the sport politics sophmoric bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how many of our current problem boomers are a direct result of leaded gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Probably quite a bit. When a reduction in leaded gasoline directly correlated with a fall in violent crime, it was confirmation. We know how long lead lasts in the body, and all that lead in the atmosphere didn't just disappear. We know there is no safe amount of lead exposure.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is an explanation of being a bully

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah pretty much. Trump isn't even the worst person I've seen a lot of GOP friends and family get enthralled with, he's up there with Rush Limbauh, Micheal Savage, Dr Laura, Anne Culter, these people have been openly white supremacist and racist fascists since the 90s or later. And they all come up with taking points that are often cruel, petty, childish insults. Conservatives eat it up. It's all great fun for them.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

does something specifically because it hurts other people

"why don't they like me?"

Why are people like this

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He believes that hierarchy is the correct way of the world. So he thinks it's his right and duty to keep people "in their place". That's why (in his mind) giving shit to people below him is ok.

Notice how these people never give shit to people "above them", even though trump and others treat them like shit. He accepts shit from people above him and doesn't understand why people below him don't accept it from him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In D&D, this is termed "lawful evil".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a pretty interesting lens to use for analyzing these people's behavior

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not a "lens". It's what conservativism is. This is the only commandment: protect the hierarchy and stay in your place.

Conservativism comes from monarchy, which comes from warlords. All the reasons and ideas are just layers on top, justifications for the hierarchy to exist.