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   Bo Jacobs (bojacobs@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:10:34 JST Bo Jacobs

   The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

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     Phil Landmeier (shuttersparks@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 15:32:40 JST Phil Landmeier

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     • Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬

     @KydiaMusic @kwramm @bojacobs Exactly. It's a cluster of neuroses, starting with serious self-esteem problems. And so, societies with self-esteem problems are ripe for fascism to take hold.

     Another red-flag for me is a society that loves the concept of revenge, which the USA is. Americans love the idea of getting revenge and this is one of the things that makes Trump so attractive. Trump frequently threatens revenge and this turns his followers on.

     All of this stems from a populace that is unhappy and feels put down, which much of the USA also feels. Racists feel put down. The rest feel they can't get ahead because the system is rigged. Which it is, by the wealthy, but they don't understand it. They don't realize that the wealthy people they idolize are the very ones who have rigged the system and destroyed the middle class.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 15:32:48 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music

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     @kwramm @bojacobs

     Its a tell-tale sign of Psychopaths and Narcissists that they can’t laugh at themselves.

     Fascism is Psychopathy and Narcissistic Personality Disorder writ large, as a national identity.

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     Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬 (kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 15:32:49 JST Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬

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     @bojacobs a common trait of most populists and autocrats seems to be that they have a hard time laughing about themselves, even in the most harmless circumstances