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I am equally confused about the false equivalence arguments. All of the examples you cited are bad to various degrees, and one of the tricks authoritarians use
by pixelready 2y ago
I am equally confused about the false equivalence arguments. All of the examples you cited are bad to various degrees, and one of the tricks authoritarians use is to do outrageous things and leave us guessing as to whether they “really mean it” or not.
Hint: if they get away with it, they meant it. If there are consequences, they “were just joking guys, geez, so sensitive!”
As for corporations accommodating governments that behave badly, that’s nothing new. The spice must flow, after all.
- rolph 2y agonarcissists do that, there could be a connection.
- Terr_ 2y agoIt's also a way of incrementally forcing their supporters to humiliate themselves, bending the knee to promote crazy excuses for dumb/evil things. This strains and breaks the supporter's social relationships with everyone outside the cult, eventually stranding them in a prison of their own making.