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Kamala Harris's Statement On Trump's Twitter Interview (lemmy.ml)

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[–] captainlezbian 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I’ve been noticing it’s shifting how I think of these people. There’s a guy in the periphery of communities I’m a part of who has been a real creep to multiple friends of mine and is a right wing gun nut. Before this change in tone I’d been thinking “lunatic” but since I’ve been thinking “pathetic”. Not sympathetic pathetic, but like “grow the fuck up, you’re a grown ass man who can’t move on when a woman you like doesn’t like you back”. I’m not seeing him as any less dangerous, but before the fact that these types were losers was secondary to the fact that they’re dangerous but it’s flipped to me. They’re losers who make their issues everyone’s problems.

[–] pyre 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fascists love being feared; it makes them feel powerful. fascism is entirely based around male insecurity, which is why the need to put women in their place is so central to their world view. so pathetic insecure losers who can't deal with their own failures would take the deal of being feared but feeling powerful for it in a heartbeat.

that's why "oh no they're fascists and they're coming for us" doesn't work. a lot of people find that enticing. what they can't stand is being reminded how pathetic they are.

weird works especially well because a huge part of these people's narrative is how they're normal people and all those trans people and homosexuals and blue haired women and people who don't want to have children are degenerate and abnormal. so when you start pointing out that they're weird, they can't stand it.

[–] captainlezbian 15 points 3 months ago

Exactly. And like, just seriously think about that desire for a second. What fucking losers they are to want to be feared. They need to grow the fuck up and learn to coexist with their fellow humans like the rest of us