Did the violent racists understood the cat message as the intended permission or do they believe it in numbers? It only matters because "combating disinformation" I'm starting to see is not the tool here imo
I think belief either way is increasingly unrelated to their activity - once they latch onto some "fact" as exploitable, the remaining thought is about how to exploit it
Yes, among abusive types and their acolytes, "belief" is about dominance displays and power. Pretending to believe obv bullshit is a power move - a thumb in the eye of normies who think facts 'n' rules have some sway.
The analogy I always use is that of school bullies calling a kid 'gay'. Is it because they genuinely believe that he's homosexual? Would they stop if he got a girlfriend? Of course not, but 'gay' is a stand in for what they want to say but can't.
That they enjoy hurting people, basically - even kids know you can't just admit to being a sadist. Stuffing a kid in a locker or calling in bomb threats is a recreational activity. In Ohio there's the extra layer of enjoying hurting somebody because they're black, immigrants, poor etc.
oh gotcha: so the insult is a stand-in for the fact that it isn't really about something right or wrong about the other kid at all, but just the pain they can be put in by "observing" something abut them itself
In the Third Reich, there were very few actual Gestapo agents. People *wanted* violence against outgroups so much that they got their own neighbours sent to camps. Vance retweets a lie and some sad, small man calls in bomb threats: that’s how fascism works.
I’m sure Ohio is lost, but perhaps residents of other close states will see this. This is fascism. This is what Trump and Vance both want. They say one thing about eating pets or gender affirming care and sad little men all over the country invent ways to terrorize outgroups.
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