They don’t care about the hypocrisy.
They never will.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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They do, actually. The ability to be so hypocritical is a demonstration of raw power.
And that? That they love and care about dearly.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
'Anti-semite' here being in 1940's ~~1920s(?)~~ terms, and more or less equivalent to 'fascist' or 'far/alt right' in today's terms. All around excellent quotation.
*edit: See below commentary
I think Sartre said that in the 40s, possibly after WW2 had ended, and of course, almost certainly said the original phrase in French, but basically yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew
Ah, wrote it in '44, after the liberation of Paris, but not widely published till '46.
Maybe this is a ... more digestible but also more thorough breakdown of many key concepts:
But uh yeah, he's very clearly talking about the literal Nazis.
You wanna understand Nazi brain?
The psychology of fascists, bigots?
Set aside some time to read Sartre.
Fascists wield language as a weapon, not as a means of communication.
Read some Hitler or Goebbels if you wanna see how that works, in their own words.
Reminder that Trump quite literally kept a collection of Hitler's writings/speeches in his bedside table, for years, according to his ex-wife.
.. Yes, this was in a Vanity Fair interview in 1990, resurfaced and got a lot of press ... before Trump got elected, the first time.
Not too long after this, people started calling him a fascist or way too familiar with facsists... and then basically everyone acted like that was a hyperbolic overreaction, that discredited you as a serious political commentator.
... Oops.
The ghostwriter of one of his books mentioned that was the only book he ever saw in the apartment.
I swear, if there's an afterlife, you won't be judged based on how good or bad you were. It'll be based on your hypocrisy.
Example 1
Death: "You were a mob boss. You had many people injured, tortured, and murdered. Did you ever try to fool anyone into thinking you were not a mobster? That you were innocent?"
Mobster soul: "Only law enforcement! I mean, everyone knew I was the head of a criminal organization. I was a proud mob boss! I acted accordingly and never misrepresented myself!"
Death: "You will be reincarnated. We have many worlds in need of villains."
Example 2
Death: "You were a politician, fraudster, and serial philanderer. You took many lovers in secret. Made many promises you never kept. That you never intended to keep."
Politician soul: "Guilty as charged! But hey, I gave millions to charity! I was super polite and never personally physically harmed a single person. I mean, so many people thought I was great! Obviously, that means I was!"
Death: "You will serve in hell."
You know, I actually don't think hypocrisy is sin, or even a moral failing. We all do it, and it's almost always symptomatic or indicative of other deeds we feel guilty of. It's always better to not be a hypocrite because it's a more honest assessment of what is happening and why, but in both of those examples there were very real moral injuries or sins to address before the hypocrisy that obscures them. I think we confuse the "gotcha" nature of calling out hypocrisy with the actual sin we are deobfuscating by calling it out.
Afterlives are just something people invented to make themselves feel better while living in an unjust world. They hope there is some sort of cosmic justice in the afterlife that will compensate them for the injustices of their current lives. Over time the concept was coopted by the powers that be to keep the masses compliant with the promise of a reward that will realistically never come.
Is there an afterlife or do your final thoughts, fears and regrets just echo for a perceived eternity that is actually seconds, like when a computer hangs during a video and the last played sound repeats over and over and over ..
Or there's nothing, whatever, sometimes it's fun to imagine terrifying nonsense.
That would be nice
They don't understand or recognize it. They good. We bad. Its that simple. Nothing they say is bad and any time the orange infant gets upset its because of bad people.
Not until it affects them directly like in the pocket book.
Not just in politics, but there's a real problem with people just insisting on repeateded benefit of doubts that someone is operating in good faith...
Over and over again, I keep seeing people think that just because they care about facts and logic, that other people have to care about facts and logic.
That's not how a human brain works, it's never how our brains worked.
Human brains love explanations but hate thinking. If they've accepted an explanation and you try to talk them out of it with facts and logic, a sizable percentage of humans will get confused and just shut down cognitive thinking and fall back on emotion.
That's why so many trolls just blindly throw emotional charged labels around.
You can't say/do anything to change their minds, they've placed you in a box, and that box has a bad word on it. They'll never calm down enough to re-evaluate if that was the right box, now that you're in the box the only thing that matters is the label, they'll never look at anything else.
It's a very very simplified outlook, and once someone has that view it's incredibly difficult for them to dig out of it. Millions and millons of years of evolution have reinforced that false positives don't matter and it's safer to assume the box marked "enemy" only contains enemies.
A false positive means you don't interact with an outsider, but thinking an enemy is safe might mean they kill you.
The problem, as usual, is people running on instinct because they weren't educated enough to prefer facts and logic. Global poverty makes it worse, because poverty makes our brains focus on short term and that means distrust.
It's what I see as definiting modern politics, particularly in the GOP/MAGA/Conservative groups. Bad faith actors taking advantage of every possible norm to manipulate and get what they want. It's a consistent behavior that Democrats either naively or purposely ignore. Over and over.
It's exploded past that tho..
Like "everything is political" and all, but it comes up all over.
And it's not just a rightwing thing either these days. Hasn't been for a while.
Republicans dove into it headfirst decades ago, but neoliberals tried for 30 years to see if it could work on enough Dem voters to get us to accept neoliberals.
Look at how Hillary/Joe/Kamala ran their campaigns, they didn't focus on what positives they could bring, just that MAGA was bad and we need to vote against MAGA, any criticism of them and theyd call that person MAGA even if they were left of Hillary/Joe/Kamala.
It (and this should be obvious) was the exact same strategy.
What's fucked is that was the norm for so long, the attitude is becoming pervasive all over society.
That was the entire point of my first comment, not sure if that clarified.
The silver lining tho, is that path failed so badly the voting members of the DNC (they vote for chair when a dem.doesnt become president) finally picked another path. The downside is those neoliberals still exist, still control the media, and are still pushing that same strategy... And it's actually working because people want to believe the DNC is still controlled by those neoliberals, even when the neoliberals are also shit talking the DNC now
Like, I can't think of a more prescient example of people on the left falling for it, than people who are just so used to the DNC being shit, they think the new chair has to be shit, because he's in a box labeled "DNC" even tho that box really only ever should contain the DNC chair, because they are the party and accountable to no one.
So when the old chair leaves and a new one legitimately goes in that box, the box still saying "DNC" doesn't matter, because there was a 100% turnover of "The DNC".
It's as dumb as blaming whoever the next president is for what trump is doing today, and logically it shouldn't be difficult to explain that to people.
But best of luck if you ever try
Global poverty makes it worse, because poverty makes our brains focus on short term and that means distrust.
Which, just to complete the thought, is why authoritarians love policies that keep people in poverty, even when they harm society's economic output enough to reduce profits for the oligarchs themselves.
Poor people are in survival mode. People in survival mode don't act rationally and are much easier manipulated.
Who's got the video link?
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2050417091346665848
It’s just a bunch of people talking over each other