• Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    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.

    • forrgott@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      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.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      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.

      • pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
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        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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      10 hours ago

      He learned that from Putin. The difference is that Putin is well aware he’s the most evil.