i think about this a lot but i don't know if i have good words for it. but something about how the cruelty isn't the point because they want to be dicks, the cruelty is the point because it's part of the required framework whereby fascism requires an othered population to motivate against, 1/

and neo-liberal capitalism is very good at creating othered populations without the majority quite realizing what happened and how, thus these two components pull towards each other like magnets without intervention