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The masculine urge to join a fascist death squad (Original Post) Sam I Yam 10 hrs ago OP
WTF is this? usonian 8 hrs ago #1
So glad you weighed in, usonian NJCher 8 hrs ago #3
I'm kind of stunned NJCher 8 hrs ago #2

usonian

(23,865 posts)
1. WTF is this?
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 02:49 AM
8 hrs ago

I grabbed a transcript

Pastebin refused to post it. So rentry.

https://rentry.co/wx5sgna8

What does this mean? (an error in transcription?)

But I will say this, America is a gun-loving country and leftists love their guns

I will say from my experience that violence is taught. Hate is taught. Racism is taught. They are not innate.

Life is a mirror. The way we treat others reflects how we value ourselves.

It's not just mystic thought. Cherie Carter-Scott writes in "If life is a game, these are the rules":

Rule 7: Others are only mirrors of you.

How you react to others says much more about you than about the others. According to Carter-Scott, you cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. We love people who have traits that we like and dislike people who have traits we dislike.

People who kill others have zero mirror neurons. They can't imagine what others feel, and they are empty. By killing others, they kill themselves.

America loves guns because movies and the NRA brainwashed people for ages. They have created a cult mentality around guns and violence. Most other countries do not have the same situation.

I'm a veteran, and live in the woods with bears (I can send pictures) and rattlesnakes and all manner of crap. The worst I need to kill is a six pack.

Again, WTF is this?

NJCher

(42,640 posts)
3. So glad you weighed in, usonian
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:06 AM
8 hrs ago

I have no, and I mean no experience with violent movie content.

Insofar as games go, however, I do recall a couple decades ago when a student made a speech about violent video games. As part of his speech, he had some violent content from the game playing constantly in the background. I could not get this out of my head after I saw it.

I recall that I worried about how such visual images could play into a primitive part of our psyches. That, I think, is what he is talking about here.

I suspended judgment on the part about leftists loving their guns. He didn’t need to say that. It doesn’t seem to have relevance to his overall message.

NJCher

(42,640 posts)
2. I'm kind of stunned
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 02:55 AM
8 hrs ago

That I didn’t put this together myself. I guess it’s because I never watch violent movies. In fact, I rarely watch movies at all.

This video explains why these ice people will pile on anyone in such a violent rage. Now that I’ve seen this, it is out of the question to let ICE operate in such a fashion.

At the end, it dissolves into some sort of commercial, so you might want to abandon watching at about five minutes before it ends.

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