do the right wing guys think it’s like a draco malfoy thing where they’re a good guy underneath?

like when it’s like a lady and a cop and the lady seems like a normal sorta boring suburban lady

do you know what i mean. this is one of the things where if you try to ask an AI bot it yells at you

  • @girl@lemm.ee
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    They definitely think they’re the good guys, both the men and women. Not many people knowingly choose to be villains. They are convinced that their ideals are just and true, and their opponents are godless child-murderers and rapists.

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      They 100% think they are the good guys.

      I know for sure, because they are my close family members.

      Those who supported the KKK, Nazis, confederates, slave owners and apartheid leaders.

      They all have in common that they saw themselves as the good guys and saw the other people as bad or naive.

      • Boozilla
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        This has been my experience with my own family, neighbors, coworkers, etc. They think of themselves as the good guys “standing firm” against the hoards of those “scary other people” who want to take their guns, raise their taxes, and wage war on Christmas. Even though what those “other people” really want is affordable healthcare, education, and housing.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      No, we don’t think you’re evil. We think you’re good hearted but mistaken about what works and what doesn’t.

      • @girl@lemm.ee
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        I’m glad you feel that way. I have a lot of family down south who 100% think we’re all evil and that our explicit goal is to destroy America. Even in this thread there is someone saying liberals want to murder babies.

      • @datavoid@lemmy.ml
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        Don’t downvote this just because you disagree with it - we need people with different views for this site to thrive

        Edit - I’m sorry for the suggestion, please fire up the echo chamber

        • Bernie Ecclestoned
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          Yeah, the rotten apple nonsense has been shown to be just that. The Met in the UK have been repeatedly shown to be institutionally racist and sexist

          • @Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world
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            Yeah, it’s the expected outcome when you grant a group of people a monopoly on violence but with insufficient to non-existent incentives for good behavior and insufficient to non-existent disincentivizes for bad behavior.

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            That’s exactly the opposite of nonsense; it’s proving the point. They get called “bad apples” specifically because the idiom is that “a few bad apples spoils the bunch.”

            The people who say “it’s just a few bad apples” as if that excuses it are the ones who don’t have the slightest fucking clue what they’re talking about.

            • Bernie Ecclestoned
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              No, the theory is that removing a few bad apples is all that’s needed to solve the problem when it’s actually systematic.

              The barrel is the problem.

      • @girl@lemm.ee
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        If they’re a good cop, sure, in that one regard. Not many good cops these days, the system actively punishes and removes good cops.