Post #1943070

@Elodie_lyra Here’s a guess for another reason their leaders find a strategic value in cruelty. When cruelty becomes an essential aspect of state power and coercion it’s always applied to folks with less power. I think one underlying purpose for this performative cruelty is to solidify political control by getting more of the “right” folks to hate together. This is very similar to tactics cults use. My last Twitter post four years, more context in alt-text