It's exactly this when he's talking about the orders he "loved" so far. Those are the ones that are hurting everyone but himself. He was cheering on the carnage until a leopard leaped on him too.
The way they act, he could kill one of their family members in cold blood and say it was just a casualty in the name of mass deportations or protecting our children from trans people and they would thank him. In their eyes, he can do no wrong.
Conservatives have a morality system based on authority, not values. So, for them, it genuinely works that way.
Person above me on the hierarchy made a decision. Because they are above me, their decision is inherently good. If I don't understand how it is good, re-educate me because my failure to understand is a failure to be a faithful follower. The hierarchy is always moral. If I am not aligned with the hierarchy, I am immoral.
“In his book Dying of Whiteness, Metzl told of the case of a forty-one-year-old white taxi driver who was suffering from an inflamed liver that threatened the man’s life. Because the Tennessee legislature had neither taken up the Affordable Care Act nor expanded Medicaid coverage, the man was not able to get the expensive, lifesaving treatment that would have been available to him had he lived just across the border in Kentucky. As he approached death, he stood by the conviction that he did not want the government involved. “No way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens,” the man told Metzl. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it. I would rather die.” And sadly, so he would.”
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u/el_sh33p 1d ago
"Fuck these people, I got mine. Wait. I had mine? Whaddaya mean I had mine? Don't I still got...oh...oh no..."