• phx@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Honestly this type of mental disconnect is absolutely a thing and it baffles me to no end. These guys are just cosplayering a parody of the “manly man”.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Their fantasy is not about justice for women but justice for their stuff being taken. Raping someone else’s kids does not invoke the same emotion, in fact they might be cheering it if the kids in question are from a different social group.

  • MurrayL@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Because to them it’s only an issue if it affects them personally. If it’s someone else’s kids, they don’t care.

    Most conservative double-think like this boils down to a lack of empathy.

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      6 months ago

      I’d also argue that it isn’t really about the daughters for some of these men. They rather fantasize about being in a situation where it is socially acceptable to use violence, because they want to use violence. They want to be the hero, which requires a crisis.

      They might still not be in favor of pedophiles running around freely, all things considered, but they’re certainly not going to be as strongly opposed to it as their violent fantasies might make you believe.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      I have the feeling americans have low empathy, at least it shows in shows, films, tv, reporters, successful musicians (except DP), politiciabs (they don’t even fake it) … Basically every aspect of the usa culture.

      Is this true or is it cliché?

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      6 months ago

      To expand on “it’s only an issue when it happens to them”, having been raised in a very conservative environment I was told that bad things happened to bad people, and that if something happened to a “good” person, there was probably something we just didn’t know about. That thinking offers a false sense of security because as long as you’re not a bad person, bad things can’t happen to you.

      It usually takes something bad actually happening to you to break the illusion and get someone to actually start questioning their world, which is hard work. Life is so much easier to live with your head in the sand.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    6 months ago

    No one lets their friends use PDF’s.

    Use an old word format if you have to share, but never a PDF.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    ✅ Don’t have a daughter.
    ✅ Don’t have a truck.
    ✅ Didn’t vote for Trump.

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    6 months ago

    I don’t think this is the general consensus at all. The whole Epstein thing really ripped the MAGA tribe in half. There’s a lot of people over there that are upset about it.

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      6 months ago

      I’d say it’s 40/60 with 40 opposed and 60 excusing it. But that’s still a chunk.

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        6 months ago

        I’d say it can range from your 40/60 to 60/40 depending on the area. Where I live and with the people I know, there are a lot of libertarian leaning people (they say they’re conservative but they just aren’t) and they reeeeaaaallllllyyyyy don’t like Trump now. Then there’s the people that are “Red or Dead”. Those are the ones that match the online descriptions

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    6 months ago

    These same men also have a fantasy of picking up their gun and help their fellow American in a hostage or terrorist situation, but during covid, when they had an opportunity to help their fellow Americans by putting a fucking piece of cloth on their face, they refused.

  • h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    It’s not because they care about the act, they just see their daughters as property and don’t want their chattel ‘defiled’, with exceptions for personal use.