That’s one of the defining features of fascism.
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
Came here to say this. The fascist movement eventually destroys itself, but at the cost of everyone else’s lives too.
They don’t want to win in the sense of a final victory for the cause. They want to live in a constant state of fighting and winning. Every time their kind win, they immediately find something else to start a fight over. They can’t stand peace.
It’s because everything SUCKS. The loudest idiots promise to fix it, to put it back the way it was, but there is no going back. Fixing things means changing things. But people don’t want change. Change is hard. Change means giving up the things you knew. The things that made you comfortable. Change is work and effort and letting go and growing. Tearing down the old to build better and new, but these chuckle fucks would rather cry and cling to the world from two centuries back of inbred kings and their corporate masters that no longer makes sense.
Blueanon shit needs proof before we spew. No, no rigging beyond the “acceptable within the system” rigging of FPTP and gerrymandering occurred. Oh, and Elon bribing people to vote. Any other claim needs proof. For fuck’s sake.
Did you know that lowering people’s faith in the electoral process works both ways? For one side, they spin a massive conspiracy theory. For the other, they say vague shit and the internet does the theorizing for them. Fucking weird, man. Almost like that’s one of their stated goals, or something.
Edit: “This recipe calls for a lack of faith in the electoral process. If you can’t make your own, store bought is fine!”
They have been digging and finding clear “Russian Tails” favoring the GOP in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections. They have lawsuits wending their way through the courts in several states at this point, and unlike all the lawsuits brought by the GOP, these ones aren’t being tossed due to lack of evidence.
the dog caught the car and had no idea what to do next. these fucks have absolutely no idea how to govern, so of course the only things they’re able to unify behind is project 2025 shit that’s literally mapped out for them beforehand. they have no idea how to react to the changes and manifold self inflicted wounds the admin keeps piling on, and probably don’t care because they’re trying to wreck the elections process for the future.
they saw the writing on the wall and decided: it’s better to drive the bus off a fucking cliff than be a minority player in governance.
Hate doesn’t have an end-goal. They’ve punished and inflicted misery on the poor, women, LGBTQ+, immigrants, Democrats, etc. It satisfies nothing. They’re still angry and blame everyone else…
They’re only mildly content when someone else is getting the boot. They cry the loudest when it comes for them though.
They’re after the farmers and the military and the taxpayers now.
Basically everyone who isn’t in on the grift will pay. And some of those grifting will get got too. There’s no permanent loyalty there, ask Epstein.
Being angry is their identity.
It’s one of the symptoms of early childhood lead poisoning. I’m convinced that the modern Republican party is composed primarily of the kids who grew up with leaded gas.
And you’d be making a terrible mistake. Yes, 45-64 year olds overwhelmingly turned out for Trump. But, Trump won ALL age groups for male voters. Trump just barely won 45-64 women by 1% and lost all other ages ranges for female voters. (According to a study with 22k participants) Source
There are also lead poisoning concerns for people who frequent indoor gun ranges.
And I’d say male voters for Trump aren’t so much indicative of general Republican support as they’re indicative of an appetite for populism.
Anger is the only emotion that men – especially conservative men – are socially permitted to express.
It isn’t permissible, they get criticised, threatened, criminalized and shamed for it, constantly, just less often directly. There is an abundance of shame for male anger.
All other emotions get shaped in service others, or are dissuaded altogether. Often through some pretty harsh and abusive methods, used by both men and women.
Anger is unique because attempting to suppress men, when angry, becomes a risk, especially the harsh, more cruel methods, which can provoke a genuine and extreme threat. I think it’s more that a majority of people are scared to attempt to directly control or manipulate a man when he is angry, the way they do his other emotions, so the social influences on men’s emotions are absent, making the prevalence of anger much higher because it’s actually given space to exist. It isn’t that men are permitted, it’s that people are less willing to risk dissuading it. If you’ve ever had to handle an angry person who could very seriously hurt you, you know how delicate and tense that can get and how few people would willingly attempt it.
Men are then abandoned to their anger, to suffer it alone, because people don’t want to be around a threat. Men’s relationship with anger comes from societies failure to maintain controlling influences during moments of anger. The lack of fathers and male role models in boys lives causes the abandonment to start as soon as a boy becomes big enough to threaten people, particularly mothers. Unlike mothers, fathers can remain a control on male anger through early puberty, being unthreatened in those moments of pubescent anger, when boys should be taught a healthy relationship with anger.
Unfortunately for conservatives, those fathers tend to respond to anger, with anger. Which doesn’t teach a healthy relationship, but one of power dynamics, instead.
They’re incapable of blaming themselves for anything.
The coyote caught the runner?
they probably dint expect trump, AI to BUNGLE things so bad with israel, datancenters and international relationships. they were hoping enough damage is done to blame the next DEM instead, but not too much damage that would threaten GOP seats. and the 2024 was rigged, its just msm will never report on it, because it just puts too much attention on themselves and the DEMs since they are complicit.
