They literally don’t think too hard about it. Just feed them the next conspiracy line and they’ll latch on, no matter how hard it goes against the last one. “He was there because he was trying to stop it” was the approximate excuse I heard a few years ago.
They think elites should be able to do what they want— reactionary ideology was founded as a monarchical counterrevolutionary movement, and that’s the ideal they’re working backwards to achieve.
Note that this obviously doesn’t apply to elites who aren’t aligned with their movement.
They use rhetoric to divide the opposition and to rally their base; they don’t actually care about coherence.
They think elites should be able to do what they want
Recently, one of my moms was ranting about how corrupt Biden was for pardoning his son (she didn’t even know what he was charged for - I got her to look it up and then her response was basically "well, he deserved it anyways because of corruption). Later the same day, we were talking about how Musk was abusing his position to fire people investigating his companies and my moms responses were “that’s smart”.
There’s so much “as long as my team does it, it’s good and no matter what the other team does, it’s bad”
Yep. It works exactly like cheating in sport. I know football fans who will want the harshest penalties for cheating in the opposite team, while just laughing and shrugging if someone in their team does the same thing or even worse.
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In this case, I kind suspect its an issue of saving face. They don’t want to admit that the team they supported are doing bad things, because it would admit being wrong. But until it starts to serious hurt them directly, they won’t care. Of course the current administration is actively trying to harm them, but I can’t imagine them admitting it until well after it happens…
For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.
And they think it’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Yep. They keep claiming that Biden is “your guy” or something like that. I never voted or supported Biden. Doesn’t matter how many times I point out I don’t support him or call out BS from the dems. Somehow because I think Republicans and Trump are worse means I’m automatically supporting Dems/Biden/Kamala.
How do you figure? I can’t think of a single state where my one vote would have swung the election. Even if I could have voted 1 million times, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. I voted for the dem in the senate election, which was closer: if I had just voted 1 million times there, it would have barely swung it!
How do MAGA folks ignore Trump’s DEEEEEEEP ties to Epstein so completely???
They literally don’t think too hard about it. Just feed them the next conspiracy line and they’ll latch on, no matter how hard it goes against the last one. “He was there because he was trying to stop it” was the approximate excuse I heard a few years ago.
They just grab the nearest pussy, of-age or non, and don’t think about it.
They don’t ignore it, they don’t care.
They think elites should be able to do what they want— reactionary ideology was founded as a monarchical counterrevolutionary movement, and that’s the ideal they’re working backwards to achieve.
Note that this obviously doesn’t apply to elites who aren’t aligned with their movement.
They use rhetoric to divide the opposition and to rally their base; they don’t actually care about coherence.
Recently, one of my moms was ranting about how corrupt Biden was for pardoning his son (she didn’t even know what he was charged for - I got her to look it up and then her response was basically "well, he deserved it anyways because of corruption). Later the same day, we were talking about how Musk was abusing his position to fire people investigating his companies and my moms responses were “that’s smart”.
There’s so much “as long as my team does it, it’s good and no matter what the other team does, it’s bad”
Yep. It works exactly like cheating in sport. I know football fans who will want the harshest penalties for cheating in the opposite team, while just laughing and shrugging if someone in their team does the same thing or even worse. .
The cruelty is the point.
In this case, I kind suspect its an issue of saving face. They don’t want to admit that the team they supported are doing bad things, because it would admit being wrong. But until it starts to serious hurt them directly, they won’t care. Of course the current administration is actively trying to harm them, but I can’t imagine them admitting it until well after it happens…
For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.
Reality itself is a team sport for conservatives.
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. There is no other force in their moral universe.
And they think it’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Yep. They keep claiming that Biden is “your guy” or something like that. I never voted or supported Biden. Doesn’t matter how many times I point out I don’t support him or call out BS from the dems. Somehow because I think Republicans and Trump are worse means I’m automatically supporting Dems/Biden/Kamala.
Sooooo… Your nonvote helped elect Trump and now you’re unhappy about it? I’m so fucking sorry for you, dude.
How do you figure? I can’t think of a single state where my one vote would have swung the election. Even if I could have voted 1 million times, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. I voted for the dem in the senate election, which was closer: if I had just voted 1 million times there, it would have barely swung it!