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republicans take immense pleasure in the suffering and misery of others, there is an intentional anti-social quality in many rightwing americans

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The wear their ignorance and confrontational hate with pride because they know it frustrates anyone who would otherwise correct or at least otherwise shut them up into walking away. It's a shockingly effective tactic really because it's true, most of them aren't worth the time. But that's a problem

I think about this, and how they are products of a system a lot. and then I think about how the purpose of a system is what it does. and then I just go back into bed lol.

i think it's because they want to feel strong that's why they're always fantasizing about how triggered the libs are by absolutely everything they do it makes them feel like they have power over their enemies and can hurt them as much as they want.

So, even though ASPD is only diagnosed in about 2% of the population, habitual and chronic antisocial behavior is estimated to exist at a rate of about 1 in 4 in some modern US studies. There's also a sift to include sadism as its own trait, shifting the Dark Triad of prsonality to the Dark Tetrad.

I don't think it's the party itself but more of a reflection of the people they represent. They're amoral monsters, sure, but they always follow what their paymasters tell them what to do to remain in power. If the bigots of this nation grow a conscience & empathy, the RNC will seize to exist.

For many of them, that is part and parcel of their fascism. For others, they’re just absolutely miserable and instead of putting in the work to understand why that is and address it, they’d just prefer everyone else to be just as miserable as they are and call it a day

Yup! The part about, 'take immense pleasure in the suffering and misery of others,' is because they are miserable themselves, and have nothing better to do! Imagine being so miserable/unhappy in life that your only comes from tearing down others? 🙄

Pretty natural imo that a rise of social isolation during covid would lead to an increase in support of anti-social politics The left needs to find a way to bring people together in person. Make anti-loneliness and intentional community an explicit part of our political project.

Their entire belief system is based in fear, so everything they see that goes against their fear-rooted controlling beliefs is bad and must be punished otherwise their shit crumbles and they cant have that. Same shit as the "yeah you're innocent but it'd cause a stir to let you go, so we kill you"

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if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic

There's levels to it. From the guys at the top needing to have more than everyone combined to the people at the bottom who just want to feel they've won by scaring & middle fingering the libs even though the jab gets returned in karma & $ penalties. $ & hate are our ONLY universal values anymore. 👎