• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It’s a literal bonfire of the vanities. The bigotry, the smugness, and the violence are all part of a self-mythologizing narrative used to build support for increasingly awful people. Guys like Ben-Gvir are in power precisely because they’re the biggest assholes the country has to offer. They draw in other assholes like a magnet and build a movement based on that collective awfulness, even as their country self-destructs and takes out every neighbor in a 500 mile radius.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      The issue is not that we have deranged human beings. As societies, we can handle these cases.

      The issue is we keep promoting them: Minister in Israel, President in the US, billionaires, trillionaire, …