admitting to their "projection" is the way I read it...
It's simpler than that.
They want power, and they don't want others to have that power.
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder.
The object of power is power.
Now do you begin to understand me?"
- Orwell, 1984
They want power, and they don't want others to have that power.
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder.
The object of power is power.
Now do you begin to understand me?"
- Orwell, 1984
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Why not both?
Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.
— Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
Weaponized projection is literally in their playbook for seizing power.
@cjd At this point a benevolent dictator would be a good thing, we just ain't getting that though.
@nicholas @GluedToTheScreen @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @threalist
By Any Means Necessary.
I agree, with the caveat that those "how to ruin a country" instructions were never in the ACTUAL book "Rules for Radicals", that was a meme someone made up. I actually read the book, it's other stuff.