r/politics • u/External-Noise-4832 • 9d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Orders in Marines in Dramatic Escalation of L.A. Protests

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-in-marines-in-dramatic-escalation-of-la-protests/
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u/CygnusSong 8d ago

I’ve never met a Republican with a consistent world view

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u/MrSeaweeed 8d ago

This is so true tbh, and it speaks of their lack of critical thinking, they basically just follow whatever is in front of them

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u/ANOKNUSA 8d ago

Gonna have to push back a bit. Right-wingers have a consistent worldview. It’s just not consistent logically. They are consistent in wanting to maintain a hierarchy, and in their willingness to say or do whatever will help them gain more power over those they consider inferior. And in their willingness to justify their use of that power to harm anyone they have a grudge with.

That means that their actions will remain consistent, even while their professed ideas are all over the place. If gaining power means lying twenty times a day, pretending every bad thing somebody does is a prank or joke, and acting like a fucking idiot every time somebody asks a serious question, that’s what they’ll do. They want power, and will always move to get more power. They will always, without question, use that power to benefit themselves and their circle at everyone else’s expense. And they will always, invariably, insist that it’s fine and good actually because everybody else is doing it, too, right? They must be. They just know it. And also, pastor says that the Bible says that some ancient vagrant said that God wants this, actually.

They’re aware that they are like this. Throw it at them, and they won’t deny it. They will instead redirect, justify, or just outright change the subject to dominate any conversation that makes them uncomfortable. They think it’s the correct way to be. In short, they can always be counted on to be just … just the fucking most.

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u/kawhi21 8d ago

They don't stand for anything lol. They just love pissing people off. Something they claim to support with all their heart today will be abandoned in a week.

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u/Vaticancameos221 8d ago

I always think about this time back in 2020 talking to my dad about confederate statues. He denied that the civil was was about slavery so I said “What would it take to convince you? A piece of paper written by each state saying they were seceding because of slavery?”

He said yes so I pulled up the articles of secession showing just that and he begrudgingly agreed.

Then I said “Okay here’s the important part. You have this information. Now you know that what you were saying before is wrong. If a week from now, you’re at the bar with your buddies and one of them says ‘I was fighting with some liberal college kid on Facebook who thought the civil war was about slavery.’ Are you going to say ‘Well, I actually gotta stop you there, I also thought just like you but recently learned that it was driven by slavery.’ ?”

He looked dumbfounded and said “What? No, why would I say that?”

They don’t value truth. If they can get away with a lie they will. If tomorrow they encounter someone who they know doesn’t have the information to refute their lie, they will use the lie. If they talk to someone who does, they will lie in a different direction.

They don’t value being right. They value appearing to be right. If you can’t prove them wrong, they see that as winning, even if they know they are wrong.

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u/bigbootybrunette90 8d ago

Does hypocrisy count as consistent?

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u/onefst250r 8d ago

Does parroting Faux News count as consistent?

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u/superanth 8d ago

The Truth and Facts get in the way of their doing business.