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he was told to do something... & people were being hurt & killed..Doc Sportello
(7,524 posts)Like Gotti sitting in the car watching the Castellano hit.
Irish_Dem
(47,199 posts)The more pain, death, suffering the more he loved it.
Long time history of obvious sadism.
Doc Sportello
(7,524 posts)Found many definitions of course but Wikipedia's version included the four types in which one seemed to fit dump to a t. It is called spineless sadism (hilarious and appropos):
Insecure, bogus, and cowardly; venomous dominance and cruelty is counterphobic; weakness counteracted by group support; public swaggering; selects powerless scapegoats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadistic_personality_disorder
Irish_Dem
(47,199 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,199 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)requires a lot more violence. Since a pretend-legal internal coup was not possible, they expect their RW takeover to lead to/require national violence in the streets.
But did we need more proof that he doesn't care about killing people than the over a MILLION dead from the pandemic? He, and others, opportunistically fostered its spread in order to create national chaos and fear to facilitate their RW takeover. Disease is a STANDARD weapon for those seeking to overthrow existing institutions. And estimates early on, when they set themselves to spreading and refusing to contain, were for MILLIONS of Americans dead if this disease wasn't stopped.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Including that mass sacrifice of their own people by ruling classes has long been a means of consolidating power.
They've been studying why this Covid pandemic wasn't as effective as they had expected/feared in various places around the planet where RW factions have been trying to use it to take/consolidate power.
I haven't read what they've been learning, but the Covid pandemic exploded during a planetwide surge of RW extremism, including a return of fascism to Europe and the U.S., and somehow we caught a bit of a break in that respect. So far.
dalton99a
(81,563 posts)sop
(10,226 posts)With no television or internet while he waits for death.
unblock
(52,283 posts)He was doing everything he could to allow the insurrection that might have made him a dictator to succeed.
He cared deeply. Not about pence or any democrats, of course, but about the possibility of the coup succeeding.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)react to anything right.