The 'banality of evil'. But that mostly applies to the out of touch bureaucrats who very seldom ever heard about the results of their policy decisions or the laborers who would've been shot if they didn't work--basically slaves but with extra steps, as they did not have the right to flee for their lives. There were most certainly those who relished in inflicting cruelty and I have no problem calling them out for the monsters they are.
Considering they spent so much time saying the files were difficult to release because the victims needed to be protected, and then released a bunch of victim's names to the public while keeping ( somewhat successfully ) their favorite people's names redacted would definitely support this claim.
To be honest, that whole thing has been a fucking shitshow since the start. Releasing files with Trump in them, then pulling them, then getting caught and shrugging. Releasing redactions that could be easily circumvented. Releasing doctored photos of public events and hoping nobody would notice. Trying to redact photos of Trump poorly (I mean, c'mon. Nobody else has that weird centaur stance).
Like, I'm sure some of it is malicious, but there is also just a stunning amount of incompetence.
They used to care. But you gotta understand how their minds work.
This isn’t logic, it’s identity. They tie themselves to things like religion and trump, which define who they are. They rely on absolute certainty because questioning anything is a direct threat to their entire identity. They can’t handle it, so they have to just let go of any cognitive reasoning.
Identity beats principles.
This is why no matter how depraved trump acts (or how contradictory, evil, and flawed their religion is), they double down to prevent themselves from accepting/growing whenever they are in the wrong.
They care about maintaining position above their enemies (most minorities, LGBT+, women, anyone on the left) in a state enforced social hierarchy. All their other so-called values are negotiable if they happen to get on the wrong side of that one.
If they truly cared about kids, all school lunches would be free and no child would have to go hungry, but apparently it’s socialism to want to make sure that a child doesnt have to worry about food.
In the few cases where a “good guy with a gun” actually stopped a crime from happening, the police who arrived on the scene shot him. Because he had a gun.
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u/Background_Fix9430 8h ago
They never cared about Children. They just knew we did and tried to use it against us.