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[–] 68 points 7 months ago (9 children)

He doesn't believe in good guys, he thinks everyone is just as evil as him so it makes his continuous assault on all limits of human decency OK in his mind.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    Yup, this is why his accusations are always confessions. Projection is the psychological phenomenon where you refuse to see yourself as bad, so you justify your bad actions with “everyone does bad stuff like this, so it doesn’t make me bad to do them.” But when all of your interactions are colored by that “everyone does bad stuff like this” part, it means you project those bad intentions onto others and default to assuming they’re just as bad as you are. So when he’s accusing people of bad things, it is because he has projected those intentions onto them.

    And Trump’s narcissism refuses to let him do any kind of soul-searching that may lead him to stop projecting. And thus, every accusation is an admission.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    you refuse to see yourself as bad, so you justify your bad actions with “everyone does bad stuff like this”

    I've heard the neat phrase ‘reverse cargo cult’ in regard to such views. Applied to a group of people, though, as cults typically require.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Wow, gotta read that paper now:

    The Reverse Cargo Cult metaphor explains why dictators tell their citizens lies that citizens know to be lies: a verifiable lie told by a politician changes citizens’ perceptions of politicians and reduces their willingness to replace them

    Source: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/the-reverse-cargo-cult-why-authoritarian-governments-lie-to-their-people/

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    People in some places are just convinced the rest of the world is just as bad — this is the context in which I've heard the term.

    USians' incessant belief that travelling to other countries is very unsafe is probably one example of this.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Most blatantly with his rambling about 'Americans have to flush 3 times, 5 times'. I thought what the hell is wrong with the water pressure where he lives?

    Then I read that he likely flushed evidence down the toilet. Of course. HE has a problem with destroying evidence in his toilet, so 'Americans' have problems with their toilet. I'm not even sure if he has the ability to differentiate between his problems and anybody elses.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Epstein was his best friend. And the horrific shit that happened in that island is so much worse than anybody seems to be willing to believe. But just raping kids, but torturing them to death as well, for a start.

    Think of the number of the parasitic "elite" he saw there. Of course he believes everyone else is evil, too. As far as he is concerned, he saw the proof of it. In their world, that kind of horrid vile behavior is, in fact, normal.

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  • Well yeah we all see the evil in the world, but i guess what i think defines people is whether they choose to be part of the problem or the solution. Just clarifying that's no excuse even if it's some kind of explanation for trump or anyone else's depravity.

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