Well, right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation (ie. conservatism – let's not pretend there's a non-authoritarian, non-dominant version) are both risk factors of torture-like abuse^1, so yeah, if they started seeing their children as something other than the in-group (maybe the kids got "woke"?), a huge percentage of them would probably have no qualms literally torturing them if they knew they wouldn't get punished for it
Stop it. You’re turning this into a thirst trap for the handful of conservatives on Lemmy.
Carlson is a cynical freak of nature. Why his audience listens to anything he says is bizarre. He hated the orange bad (as proven by chat messages that came out in trial) and sells his soul to boost him because he doesn’t truly believe in anything other than the death of America.
At this point, what even IS normal? We've lived through 2020. The word has lost all meaning. Nothing has meaning anymore. May as well get a refund for the louisianna purchase, and then france can sell it to the british. Then the british have the second american revolutionary war.
None of it makes sense. None of it needs to. Nothing is normal. I'm mentally worn out. You could tell me Mike Tyson is the next leader, and all he wants to do is institute a national puppy hugging hour. 7pm. Everybody is mandated to hug the puppies.
I told people back in 2016 that trump reminded me of hitler. People said I was being dramatic.
I didn't like bush. I hated bush. I NEVER said bush had similarities to hitler.
I hated reagan. Reagan's policies are still hurting us, long after his death. Prisons should NOT be for profit! Reagan wasn't hitler.
But from day 1, trumps speeches, and the content of his words, his actions, even some of his mannerisms, they all reeked of hitler. I'm not being dramatic.
He built a wall, deported the race of people he didn't like, and also rounded them up using secret police, arrested them, and then killed them.
Wait, was that hitler who did that, or trump? Oh right, it was both. They both literally did those things.
I don't think he meant Harris, feels more like he was just living out some creepy conservative pedophile fantasy where the US is personified by a "hormone-addled 15-year-old girl" who deserves a spanking – because normal, well-adjusted people spank their children, especially teenagers.
Even if he did mean Harris, consequences are for people who aren't conservatives – they can do and say almost anything without any sort of legal consequence.