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    11 months ago

    and when I hear him I want to beat him senseless

    Clearly not. Or you wouldn’t have this emotional reaction.

    You can let go of this, simply recognise that some people are real monsters and that sometimes those monsters do in fact thoroughly deserve it. The emotional reaction you’re having is, in fact, latent propaganda still living in your bones, put there by having heard it from liberals postering as the “good people” over and over again by doing this shit.

    Nobody has empathy for Mussolini swinging upside down until he died. The institutional propaganda implying you should have empathy for political opponents is just not pushed for him, and so the feeling doesn’t exist. That’s what this is, a feeling created by institutional propaganda that you absolutely don’t need to have for any monsters. You do not need to feel bad.