Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
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“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear.”
~ Heinrich Himmler
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
I think this is true now, but I question whether it’s *generally* true as a matter of human nature. Since 2008 the national mood has been anger and a sense of having been robbed. One of the biggest political trends shaping the current moment is that only one party is willing to harness that anger.
I think one reason for the GOP’s post-2008 successes is that Dems see anger as illegitimate and have refused to validate and channel voter anger at the right targets (the rich), thus 1) allowing the GOP to redirect that anger at minorities and 2) failing to motivate angry left-leaning voters
The global financial crisis was a generational rupture in the social contract and democrats neither did the work of fixing it nor chose to harness the anger that resulted from them not fixing it. In a sense every democratic loss since 2008 is blowback to Obama not putting bankers in jail.
remember the quote from a florida woman early in his first term? she wasn't happy with him, she said, because "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting."
One of my oldest friends is a Trumper and her only child has disabilities. I can’t talk to her about politics, and I can’t let her go: this woman has been wonderful to me since we were kids. I have to remember that she was conned.
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
George Orwell, 1984
Imagine running to put Uncle Sam’s boot on the top 1%? That would be cool. Dems should try that. I bet they could even do it without big money donations, people are gonna get more angry not less with the out of control oligarchy.
The backlash to "defund the police" or indeed to any attempt at police accountability shows just how many Americans literally want a boot in somebody's face. They assume it will not be them or their friends.
Their top priority is seeing the people they dislike hurt. They’re even okay being hurt themselves in the process as long as it’s presented as a necessary part of hurting their enemies.
Your “The Cruelty is the Point” piece is going to be in text books about this time.
dem politicians love billionaires. they’ll put billionaire boot on their own face. won’t even ask the billionaire to move a muscle, they’ll just lay down and move the boot themselves.
the boot IS going on someone else's face too. and harder. and the people who voted for this will continue to vote for this (or, more likely, support reforms so that they don't have to vote for it anymore)
Question for GOP: if fewer government employees is better, how many staff has DOGE cut from the second Trump administration (post felony convictions), and how do total taxpayer funded salaries compare to levels during Biden and Obama administrations?
This is so upsetting. To hear R people say, ‘we are maga and thought we would be safe”. Not caring about others. Now, they are suffering and should we care? I don’t want anyone to suffer but it is hard to rationalize caring for people who did not care about you and may have wished you ill.
Jamelle- I keep asking WHY DOESN’T THE SENATE STOP TRUMP AND MUSK? WHAT ARE THE SENATORS AFRAID OF? WHATS the motivation? Not power- they have it yet refuse to use the POWER. Money? Senators are all millionaires w the insider trading. So why don’t the act? Has the KGB threatened them personally????
Theyre scared shitless of credible death threats from their own maga constituency. These would normally be handled by the FBI, but with Patel/Bingbingo in charge, the foxes rule the henhouse.
And in next phase we’ll learn how many people will announce love for that boot on their face so long as they believe it is even more on someone else’s.
Careful that forigener is stealing your cookie
Hell this is an 1860s meme “careful white voter that Black person is stealing our shit” this is like god ages old
When you spend over 50 years telling them,
"Boots on faces is good, only the lazy get face booted...and the rich deserve to own ALL the boots" - they are angry and exploitable.
"Since the violence was directed at Jews, Marxists, and 'asocial' outsiders (homosexuals, Gypsies, pacifists, [the disabled], and habitual criminals—groups that many... were often happy to see the last of), Germans often felt more gratified than threatened by it."
— Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism
Actually they didn't lie about wanting to put their boot on their faces too, it is just that people are more concerned by the boot going first on someone else face. Those people that put their hate for others before they own wellbeing doesn't really deserve compassion.
That is it exactly! In the last decade, Trump giving them permission to be openly racist and hateful is how they found themselves in this quagmire! It escaped them, especially the Rural MAGA that he found them just as despicable! They’re stupid people full stop especially the faux Christian variety
Normal people (dems) have empathy and just know that no, it’s not ok if it hurts someone else but not you just because “they” dont look like you. And btw, maga will destroy you in the process anyway because the people you chose for Congress and President actually hate you too.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Think you meant to say “millions of white people.”
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - LBJ
i'm positive of the fact, they will still learn nothing as their children die from preventable disease. racists would see their own children set on fire if they thought "mud people" MIGHT get it worse than they have it. which is why they voted for Trump. it's suicidal cult politics
And the cruelty of betraying their own constituents is a delicious treat for republicans. All the suffering to visit upon veterans, retirees and farmers who thought they couldn’t be touched, will be that much more delectable for being such a shock.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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Everyone: I see no way this can backfire on me.
~ Heinrich Himmler
no not today
no not tomorrow
hush now the boot comes but keep the faith
It started here, in 2015👇
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
George Orwell, 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjJtEkKMX4
“F@ck You, ‘Cause You Ain’t Me…”
Just how it is.
From 2015 👇
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
What is the signal that our society has collapsed to the point where I need to be able to protect myself with deadly force?
Your “The Cruelty is the Point” piece is going to be in text books about this time.
Trump is very explicitly zero sum
https://ballotpedia.org/Trump_White_House_staff,_2017-2021
“Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”
https://bsky.app/profile/baphomeetngreet.bsky.social/post/3lj3upgahw22l
Hell this is an 1860s meme “careful white voter that Black person is stealing our shit” this is like god ages old
"Boots on faces is good, only the lazy get face booted...and the rich deserve to own ALL the boots" - they are angry and exploitable.
Masking was a perfect barometer on where we are on that journey.
— Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism
I'm literally asking
Not the butchers Biden, Harris or Trump for sure.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - LBJ
I am so tired. I don’t have words for this weariness.
VOTE for LEOPARDS EATING FACE party
Button 2:
I Never thought Leopard would eat my face.
https://bsky.app/profile/querlvox.bsky.social/post/3lix4z3nfb22p
-Generation X
- LBJ
The Southern Strategy has destroyed this country.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/