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Mike Johnson vows to fight California over gerrymander 'power grab' — but supports Texas
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What a bunch of hypocritical cunts.
If it weren't for double standards, the gop would have no standards
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Great line
Danke
Fascists don't believe, like the left, that there are principles that should be applied equally to everyone. Their starting point is "everything for me" and the rest falls out of that. So they don't see it as hypocritical to approve of something when they do it but disapprove of the exact same thing when someone else does it. It's simply that it's only good when it's done by and for them. It looks like hypocrisy to anyone trying sincerely to live a moral life for the good of all, but that just isn't the game the fascists are playing. People are not equal for them. They're the only ones that count, and that's axiomatic, not something they need to give a reason for.
So I always feel that accusing the right of hypocrisy misses the depth of their amorality and the ruthlessness of their selfishness. Their whole world view is just them in the centre, taking everything, with no need to consider others except as a temporary impediment to be used and/or disposed of.
Mehdi Hasan's recent "debate" with Nazis on Jubilee made that quite clear. There was nothing to talk about, because the Nazis' only principle is that everything goes their way, and they'll do and say whatever it takes to bring that about.
You can't overcome a fascist by pointing out that they're being unreasonable or illogical or hypocritical. They enjoy being that way because it makes others suffer and they get off on that. You can't stop them running concentration camps by pointing out that their processes are unfair. They love killing people for no reason; it makes them feel strong.
Except in very rare cases there's nothing you can say to stop fascists. They have opted out of all that. The only way is to crush them so they have no more power to enjoy and no prospect of things ever going their way, and you have to crush them again each time they try to get back up off the ground.
Amen. And this is why Liberals, and the manufactured opposition of the Democrat party, have enabled the collapse of America. Even now, in the final hour, as the fascist coup is succeeding and almost complete, they continue to pretend as though another "gotcha" or "slam" will win. The mentally ill cult doesn't care, and never has. Once the coup is complete, they will murder you and all who oppose them. They will overthrow other governments, murder millions or even billions of innocent people. They do not care, and never will. If they were capable of caring, they already would.
They wouldn’t be republicans if they weren’t hypocrites.