• Maple Engineer
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    429 hours ago

    MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. It’s about hurting people. They love the idea a rounding up non-white people, loading them into boxcars, and shipping them off to concentration camps. Everything that Trump has done so far is going make billionaires richer and regular Americans much poorer but as long as he’s hurting non-whites they will sit around giving each other rage handies and praising him.

    • @kava
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      55 hours ago

      but as long as he’s hurting non-whites they will sit around giving each other rage handies and praising him

      What I find fascinating is the right-wing illegal immigration latinos who support Trump. Up until now they’ve been saying “He’s not going to deport us, he’s deporting the criminals”. I just read a news article about half of the people they’ve arrested so far did not have any criminal records.

      White House press secretary goes live the other day and says “We’re going to deport all of them. They’re all criminals as far as I’m concerned”

      I think people have this instinctual burning desire to feel part of an “in-group” and to hate against an “out-group”. It’s such a strong burning desire that people will jump through so many mental hoops even when they are in the “out-group”.

      Note that being illegal is not a crime. It’s like when you get a parking ticket. It’s against the law but it isn’t a criminal violation. But of course the administration doesn’t care and neither does the army of rabid Americans cheering on the destruction of the country.

    • ZeroOne
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      98 hours ago

      Right wing politics in a nutshell

      Exclusion & Sadism