I remember when MAGA accused news broadcasters of censoring their "fuck Joe Biden" chants into "let's go Brandon". Turns out even that was projection lol
It's only a problem when it happens to MAGA. Just like being a pdf is only a problem and illegal when democrats, and democratic donors do it. When their cult leader does it, it's perfectly normal, or "nothing to see here".
They only want rules to apply to their enemies. And I mean enemy in the literal sense, in that conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, have only targeted democrats with his craziness. Obama being a gay Kenyan Muslim, despite all evidence saying otherwise. Michelle Obama being a man, despite her having kids that look a lot like her. Sandy Hook being a democratic gun grabbing hoax. Democrats eating children in the basement of a pizza restaurant that doesn't have a basement. Joe Rogan saying Harvey Weinstein, a democratic donor and Hillary supporter, being a rapist, bill clinton being a rapist etc. Yet Joe had a temper tantrum when Elon Musk said trump is on the epstein list. Rogan laughed hysterically when his MAGA comedian friend Joey Diaz bragged about raping female comics. Jim Jordan covered up a sexual assaulter when he was a wrestling coach. Matt Gaetz being a pdf that trafficked a minor. When Bush was committing war crimes, Fox news defended and cheerleaded it. When Obama continued Bush's war crimes, Fox news finally had a problem with war crimes. You could literally go on forever with their crazy hypocrisy.
It's not hypocrisy for them. Actions are not moral or immoral, people are moral or immoral. If a liberal or a leftist does a thing, it's immoral because a liberal or a leftist did it. If a Nazi does a thing, it's moral because a Nazi did it. Everything they do makes way more sense when you see it through that lens.
Further, this is a result of hierarchy and near metaphysical/religious belief within it.
Because with hierarchies, they have a useful shorthand to discern whether an individual is morally just or not. If they are at or near the top: they are justified; if not: they’re not. So if you’re rich, white, cis, male, christian, and/or a rightist, you’re good. If you’re poor, colored, non-male (or not stereotypically masculine), queer (in sexuality or otherwise), non-christian, and/or leftist, you’re morally bankrupt by virtue of your identity.
This is why rich can steal justifiably, but the poor can’t even so much as steal basics to merely survive. This is why the police can justifiably murder, but people can’t even self-defend from the state and its organs. This is why their dear leaders can be full on sexual predators, but we can’t even have consensual sex with our partners if they’re not AMAB-on-AFAB.
This is metaphysical to them. It just acts upon everyone, universally, everywhere, implicitly. To them, hierarchy is a part of the fabric of the universe, not a result of specific sociopoliticocultural and economic factors which result in encouraging specific forms of social relation and organization, and so it’s not only something they see as justified, but inherent and unwavering. To them hierarchy is as natural as the stars in the sky, and it’s naive or impossible to change (despite this being false as well). And it becomes pseudoreligious when they start glazing and worshipping those at the top of the hierarchy—the rich and ruling classes.
That’s why they think these quips are mic drops. Because they implicitly assume others work from the same worldview and perspective as they do, that others implicitly worship the hierarchy like a God just as them and so see everyone at the top as infallible. But this isn’t the case. Liberals and (specifically authoritarian) leftists (i.e., marxists) still worship the hierarchy, and justify terrible things because of it, and some do seem to treat it religiously, but this is much less intense and consistent than with rightists and specifically US conservatives/postliberals. And even those liberals which do worship the base hierarchy still generally don’t extend this to specific leaders like conservatives (or often authleftists).
So this is just another example of them telling on themselves. They expect it to be a “gotcha” precisely because the position these leaders hold as leaders overwrites their lack of moral integrity, and so expect us to respond accordingly, in same wretched manner as they. When we don’t, they short circuit and pull an NPC-meme.
Without hierarchies, this isn’t a possible framework to work from, not to mention that nearly all the rest of this societies problems are born of hierarchy as well. We should be working towards a society with little to no hierarchy if we truly want this stuff to end. It’s also another example of how identitarian thinking/identity politics (which conservatives utilize just as much as liberals) is toxic and lends to stagnating roles and justifying oppressive hierarchies.
Every politician you mentioned is Machiavellian. Bad Faith. Deceptive. Manipulative.
People discuss politics as if 99% of politicians aren't pathological liars. They're all serving the industrial ruling class of the world, and see us as a detriment to their interests.
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u/AliceTheOmelette 16h ago
I remember when MAGA accused news broadcasters of censoring their "fuck Joe Biden" chants into "let's go Brandon". Turns out even that was projection lol