Well the Dems do. They love Hamas, they love, the governments in Venezuela, ever notice how communists and Fascists always have dictators? While free enterprise republics don’t.
‘Fundamentally sadistic’: Clinical psychologist explains the ‘creepy depravity’ of Trump’s ‘fascism’
Moreover, “arrest your opponent” is “third-world-country stuff,” right? That’s a bad thing, right? And yet, in the same breath, Trump is saying, once he has the power to do so, that he’s going to do his own version of this bad thing. Would that be “third-world-country stuff”? Evidently, not. His enemies’ bad thing is bad while his own bad thing is good.
While this is indeed hypocrisy, it’s more than that. It’s an expression of a particular view of the world in which some people – I have called this “inpeople” – are entitled to say what’s punishable by law, while other people – I have called them “outpeople” – have no such entitlement. Those who hold this particular view of the world insist on setting themselves apart from the rest of humanity. And, as you have surmised by now, this makes equal treatment under law nearly impossible.
Because the fascists’ sole focus is dominance for the sake of impunity – the capacity to engage in violence or threats of violence without consequence – to declare someone is punishable is also immediately, inherently, a declaration of the authority and the power to determine who is the transgressor (the sinner, the apostate, the criminal, etc.)
As a psychologist, I believe it’s important to include the role of sadism – or the emotional gratification that’s derived from inflicting suffering on others – in the analysis of those who are preoccupied with compulsively seeking out those who are in need of punishment, and wishing to be the hand that deals out that punishment. This is why I say that fascists revel in violence with slobbering glee. It really is at that level of creepy depravity, and it is fundamentally sadistic.
Dems, the true fascists, racists, Jew haters, who have a dictator in the White House. Gone insane, like Herr Adolph, his minions keep his ant-democracy policies alive and him standing upright. Seig heil, Der Fuhrer Cornpop.
trailzen51 7 months ago
Well done!
Kurtass Premium Member 7 months ago
When they say what they are, believe them. “They” is the wanna be dictator trump.
GOGOPOWERANGERS 7 months ago
DDS?
Is that their new tagline?
Vidrinath Premium Member 7 months ago
Nick reads the RW comments! How sweet of him to draw them.
wildthing 7 months ago
Or worse………….you’re Woke!
Jack7528 7 months ago
Well the Dems do. They love Hamas, they love, the governments in Venezuela, ever notice how communists and Fascists always have dictators? While free enterprise republics don’t.
brwydave Premium Member 7 months ago
The orator isn’t orange enough.
jvo 7 months ago
To Jack7528.
Companies are all fascist autocracies, their leaders aren’t chosen and their workers obey them or else.
The only entities in commerce that could be classed as free are co-operatives.
Radish the wordsmith 7 months ago
‘Fundamentally sadistic’: Clinical psychologist explains the ‘creepy depravity’ of Trump’s ‘fascism’
Moreover, “arrest your opponent” is “third-world-country stuff,” right? That’s a bad thing, right? And yet, in the same breath, Trump is saying, once he has the power to do so, that he’s going to do his own version of this bad thing. Would that be “third-world-country stuff”? Evidently, not. His enemies’ bad thing is bad while his own bad thing is good.
While this is indeed hypocrisy, it’s more than that. It’s an expression of a particular view of the world in which some people – I have called this “inpeople” – are entitled to say what’s punishable by law, while other people – I have called them “outpeople” – have no such entitlement. Those who hold this particular view of the world insist on setting themselves apart from the rest of humanity. And, as you have surmised by now, this makes equal treatment under law nearly impossible.
Because the fascists’ sole focus is dominance for the sake of impunity – the capacity to engage in violence or threats of violence without consequence – to declare someone is punishable is also immediately, inherently, a declaration of the authority and the power to determine who is the transgressor (the sinner, the apostate, the criminal, etc.)
As a psychologist, I believe it’s important to include the role of sadism – or the emotional gratification that’s derived from inflicting suffering on others – in the analysis of those who are preoccupied with compulsively seeking out those who are in need of punishment, and wishing to be the hand that deals out that punishment. This is why I say that fascists revel in violence with slobbering glee. It really is at that level of creepy depravity, and it is fundamentally sadistic.
Radish the wordsmith 7 months ago
John Cleese on ‘Snowflakes’, “Yes I’ve heard this word. I think sociopaths use it in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy.”
Al Fresco 7 months ago
Dems, the true fascists, racists, Jew haters, who have a dictator in the White House. Gone insane, like Herr Adolph, his minions keep his ant-democracy policies alive and him standing upright. Seig heil, Der Fuhrer Cornpop.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 7 months ago
Confront the RWNJs with their lies and delusions, and they have meltdowns. And they call others snowflakes.
AtomicForce91 Premium Member 7 months ago
Once more Democrats projecting their own policies onto others.
rossevrymn 7 months ago
74,000,000, we need you to grow up.
cdward 7 months ago
Al Fresco proves — once again — the adage that every rightwing accusation is a confession.
acevandriver 7 months ago
Trumpers Not See Much?
PlatudimusAtom Premium Member 7 months ago
Like the adage says, The best defense is a good offense.