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Because it is. Trump is hoping to surround himself with so much corruption that he insulates himself from it. He wants it normalized so people just become num

by tw04 2y ago

Because it is. Trump is hoping to surround himself with so much corruption that he insulates himself from it. He wants it normalized so people just become numb to it, as with every other messed up thing he does.

jonny_eh 2y ago
In other words, he wants everyone else in power to have just much to lose as him if the regime fails, so that they don't turn on him. It works like this in NK and Russia.
- overfeed 2y ago
  ...or the mob, or street gangs whose initiation rituals usually involves committing a crime to bind you to the group, so you all have something to lose.
itomato 2y ago
Hoping to? He has been digging trenches for decades. This is a long time in the making. Florida is Ground Zero, and if you care to look back in time to the late 1990s, there is much to find. Epstein was cooking. Offshore Playboys were living large and public lives and making plans for the future. St. Petersburg, FL in particular holds so many secrets.
nonrandomstring 2y ago
> wants it nnormalized A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this together" sealed loyalty through a mix of guilt and fear. The race is on for the Trump administration to elicit the most unforgivable and insane actions in order to sinter those participants into a "death pact". EDIT: spotted recently posted [0] (Also of course C.R Browning's Ordinary Men [1]) both underline the point that you don't need to recruit intrinsically corrupted people - you can make them, [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning

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Because it is. Trump is hoping to surround himself with so much corruption that he insulates himself from it. He wants it normalized so people just become num

by tw04 2y ago

jonny_eh 2y ago
In other words, he wants everyone else in power to have just much to lose as him if the regime fails, so that they don't turn on him. It works like this in NK and Russia.
- overfeed 2y ago
  ...or the mob, or street gangs whose initiation rituals usually involves committing a crime to bind you to the group, so you all have something to lose.
itomato 2y ago
Hoping to? He has been digging trenches for decades. This is a long time in the making. Florida is Ground Zero, and if you care to look back in time to the late 1990s, there is much to find. Epstein was cooking. Offshore Playboys were living large and public lives and making plans for the future. St. Petersburg, FL in particular holds so many secrets.
nonrandomstring 2y ago
> wants it nnormalized A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this together" sealed loyalty through a mix of guilt and fear. The race is on for the Trump administration to elicit the most unforgivable and insane actions in order to sinter those participants into a "death pact". EDIT: spotted recently posted [0] (Also of course C.R Browning's Ordinary Men [1]) both underline the point that you don't need to recruit intrinsically corrupted people - you can make them, [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning