It’s human nature to trust strongmen
not mine
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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I only trust physically weak men who have a complex and nuanced view of things and have a hard time making decisions.
I only trust people who get stomach aches when faced with stressful ethical dilemmas.
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Well, considering both the left and the right are self-dealing pieces of shit, I would rather have a clueless pot head than an ambitious asshole. I'm a libertarian socialist. Everything I want to do to empower myself is illegal. Death to the Empire
Word. Also it’s not even remotely true, as history, anthropology and archaeology have all shown us.
nooo you should say its natural so all their actions will be justified
The fuck do you mean 'we'?
Just because you fucking suck at judging character doesn't mean I do. The moment someone starts exhibiting fascist behavior, I just assume they're a fascist, not just some billionaire crybaby blaming his asbergers.
I fucking swear when law and order breaks down, I will not consider the media a neutral force.
Eat my entire ass guardian.
Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. America is an imperialist empire.
Nah it seems like journalists are really the useful idiots.
"We?" Hell no. Some of y'all maybe.
“We” being the collective “us”.
“We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.
During desperate times, yes.
Hence why all fascists need a bogeyman.
If we were invaded by aliens and had to fight an epic war, then having the military be in charge would probably increase our odds.
It’s as if humans have an emergency override mode that was critical in the past but some people have figured out they could take advantage of it.
Naturally, the solution is education, so you don’t fall for attempts of power grab, hence the book burning.
Failing capitalist societies, especially in the first world even though we're considered a developing country now., will turn fascistic in nature, and fascist are the useful idiots of empire.
Hardwired? No.
Victims of a decades long plot to erode civic education and demonize critical thinking in order to render a population of stupid voters? Yes.
Our ancient ancestors, like most primates today, lived in groups dominated by violent and aggressive alpha males. Yet over the course of our biological and cultural evolution, unlike our primate cousins, we learned to work together to counter those bullyboys, organising to diminish their influence.
Yeah, that's true, if you ignore essentially ALL of human history, in which violence and aggression were ever present, as was social hierarchy, that almost exclusively had a single male sovereign at the top.
Basically yes. Vertical organization is the default fallback to organize ourself in groups, since it worked mostly fine in the groups of up to 150 people for most of our evolution.
I think not, it's about political systems, power distribution and about the "elite" thinking about what they gain from it. Mussolini, Trump, Hitler, Sulla, etc, all have in common is that the rich people get richer, while destroying progress for the lower classes.
yes, pretty lies beat the truth.
Bootlickers love 'em a strong daddy, makes it easier to cope with life's anxieties.
Only the chickenshit dumbfucks who are cowardly enough to fuck shit up for the rest of us.