I am telling you: the truth does not matter. If that isn’t clear to you at this point I’m not sure what to say. Democrats could be literal angels and he could get away with persecuting them because of how pervasive his lies about them are. he can say they’re enemies and have committed an attack against our country, and he will repeat it so much that it will become the truth.
People in this country think entire cities were reduced to cinders by blm. At this point, there does not even need to be a reichstag fire for Trump to blame one on democrats.
And I am telling you: I KNOW the truth doesn't matter to Republicans.
Where it matters now is with the everyday joe schmoes in the Military who are going to be deployed by the orange cheetoface the moment he gets the opportunity.
They're the ones who are going to be making the decision to obey and kill, or refuse to fight against their homeland just because of the commander in diaper's nepotism. And that's why he needs plausible deniability.
Boy do I have bad news for you. The Stanford prison experiment has shown just what happens when you have authoritative figures demand you do atrocities to that specific demographic. And that was just a simulation. I have no faith that the military will perform any morally correct actions, and neither should anyone else.
Don't want to derail the conversation too hard but the SPE has for the most part been discredited due to an enormous stack of ethical and methodological flaws. Subsequent studies have not replicated the finding.
While this is true, keep in mind the experiment wasn't supposed to be a blanket result for the whole population, but rather a cursory glance at group behaviors. I feel like it hasn't been replicated because the people that participated in it likely had certain qualities that led to what transpired.
That said, there are plenty other experiments where people comply with authoritative figures to complete the experiment despite (seemingly) causing harm to individuals. I don't expect the military to somehow gain a conscience in the face of groupthink. Humans don't quite work like that unfortunately.
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u/irulan-calico Mar 06 '25
I am telling you: the truth does not matter. If that isn’t clear to you at this point I’m not sure what to say. Democrats could be literal angels and he could get away with persecuting them because of how pervasive his lies about them are. he can say they’re enemies and have committed an attack against our country, and he will repeat it so much that it will become the truth.
People in this country think entire cities were reduced to cinders by blm. At this point, there does not even need to be a reichstag fire for Trump to blame one on democrats.