• @entwine413@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    No.

    If you support harming others who have done nothing other than exist, you can’t blame brainwashing. You’re not a good person, full stop.

    The truth is that a large portion of humans are stupid, selfish, hateful, pieces of shit. It’s why brainwashing works on them; it’s just directing them, not actually changing them.

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      517 hours ago

      Right. But that’s why they’re fed the excuses “they broke the law coming into the country!” “they committed a crime!” “they had gang tattoos!” when they overstayed a visa or applied for asylum, were unjustly convicted, or had autism awareness tattoos. But they’re fed lies, so in their minds it’s justified.

      • @Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world
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        “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

        This is why it is an individual’s responsibility to be critical of their own and others’ motivations, to attempt awareness of manipulations by others and our own self-deceptions.

        Even the best of my countrymen are not good at any of these things, but people that do not even make the attempt certainly seem to skew toward MAGA.