• Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    It’s calculated, efficient, clearly motivated evil verses narcissistic, deranged, inconsistent evil.

    The reason the latter often feels preferable is it’s a devil you can understand. I can analysis the haute-bourgeois and predict their actions with some accuracy, makes them easier to organize against. For all I know my local petty-bourgeois is one citation for improper sewage dumping away from driving an armored bulldozer through my house.

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      7 months ago

      It can be difficult for many to contemplate the sheer evil and depravity of the owner of a chain of car dealerships in Idaho.

    • WaterBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      While it is helpful to vent, Marxist speaking they are not needed to be evil, the structures and systems mean they fill a role in which they are molded into acting in a way that makes you see them as evil.

      Moral categories are not needed, but emotional fulfilling.