i just also need a stage two to this. i don’t care who’s doing what. this is insufficient. we have it in our mental toolboxes. the bad guys sometimes get off on the badness and there is no other motivation. we have recognized the problem. i need more.

need clear minded direct responses to all of it and not the smarmy "well this is obviously suboptimal", but fire and brimstone, dude is saying they do trans surgery on your kid in school and murder babies at 10 months and killers flooding over the border to steal houses and they're like like "smdh"

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/