"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21
Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"It explains how rich property owners in the South could continue to justify massive wealth inequality while dire poverty persisted in those states. The problem wasn’t the oligarchs; it was the Blacks, so the narrative went."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/20
"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19
"It’s all encompassing and all powerful, and you just want so badly for it to harm others more than you. So instead of thinking about how we all might prosper together in the future, Trump would see us cast into different competing groups, fighting over scraps, trying to feel less relative pain."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/18
"If Trump can successfully make people ignore what is actually happening and focus instead on long-held divisions and resentments, then his voters could find solace knowing that at least they are better off than them.
And the government? Trump wants people to understand that it inflicts pain. It makes you hurt."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/17
"If you teach people that life is full of pain and grievance, Snyder argues, then at least Trump’s voters have the consolation that they are not suffering as badly as immigrants, minorities and queer people. And that, it turns out, is a powerful motivator."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/16
Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."
#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga
"I don’t know many Trump supporters who are happy these days even though they got every thing they’ve ever wanted and more. The crabs in a bucket mentality has only gotten worse.
Bitterness and cruelty are the point. … They hate with a viciousness that seems to have no bounds."
~ Jess Piper
"I don’t know many Trump supporters who are happy these days even though they got every thing they’ve ever wanted and more. The crabs in a bucket mentality has only gotten worse.
Bitterness and cruelty are the point. … They hate with a viciousness that seems to have no bounds."
~ Jess Piper
I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize #cruelty instead of completely eliminate it.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#Sanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive#Progressives
I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize #cruelty instead of completely eliminate it.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#Sanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive#Progressives
"Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
/4
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates 'like dogs', according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities."
~ Richard Luscombe
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
/3
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses
"And DHS has collected DNA from 133,000 migrant children, and put it in the CODIS database, and collecting immigrants’ Medicare data. (Wired)"
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
/2
"Horrific ICE stories: a Swiss tourist with a valid electronic travel authorization was chained to a chair and then imprisoned in New Jersey. (NZZ) An 82-year-old grandfather from Chile with a Green Card who had been in the US since 1987 was kidnapped to Guatemala, and ICE told his family he had died. (Guardian)"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
/1
https://www.wonkette.com/p/good-dog-susan-tabs-mon-july-21-2025
you know how in corporate speak, there are “glue people”?
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114869692747102624
after Gamergate gave rise to #MAGA, Canadian sociologists came to the conclusion that the glue people that bind sociopaths, narcissists and machiavellians into social & political movements are sadists, aka trolls.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110696837641422375
if #cruelty is the point of #fascism, #death is the point of trumpism. Miller, techbros, christofascists, zionists are all necrophiliacs.
you know how in corporate speak, there are “glue people”?
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114869692747102624
after Gamergate gave rise to #MAGA, Canadian sociologists came to the conclusion that the glue people that bind sociopaths, narcissists and machiavellians into social & political movements are sadists, aka trolls.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110696837641422375
if #cruelty is the point of #fascism, #death is the point of trumpism. Miller, techbros, christofascists, zionists are all necrophiliacs.
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