Damn. Killer review.

I’d rather hear from Michael Green.

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Uhm…what terrorists?

As a former Republican, isn’t that the modus operandi? I mean, look how it covered up the deaths in Benghazi. GOP refused to fund extra security for those diplomats and instead spent millions of dollars to hold over 27 hearings screaming about it on Faux propaganda with a double bonus tanking HRC.

There’s been absolutely zero accountability for egregious deadly crimes against citizens for decades now. They’ve even covered up the murder of a President and Attorney General, then had the nerve to hold on to the evidence even after a law specifically written to release it. Nah man. Ain’t gonna.

So the Senate can save his ass again? What’s the point.

The longer-term antidote is rebuilding contexts where people can’t stay abstract—work, mutual aid, local projects, faith or civic groups—because sustained contact makes it harder to maintain dehumanizing stories without running into reality.

If there’s an intervention point, it’s refusing the pleasure loop: don’t share humiliation for fun, don’t justify harm as “teaching a lesson,” and don’t treat norm-breaking as courage when it’s really avoidance of responsibility.

This doesn’t require everyone to be a psychopath; it only requires that entitlement, dehumanization, and cruelty-as-comedy be rewarded often enough that they feel like common sense, and that admitting harm feels like humiliation.

Platforms amplify this because outrage, certainty, and ridicule travel farther than nuance, and the most shameless interpretation gets the most attention; over time, people learn which emotions earn status and which ones get you mocked.

Samenow’s patterns show how double standards become stable: “when we do it, it’s defense,” “when they do it, it’s evil,” and accountability is always redirected, so there’s no internal brake that forces reflection or repair after harm.

Transgression: If rules are seen as weapons used by corrupt insiders, breaking norms becomes a moral performance, and each violation reads as courage; the shock itself becomes the payoff, and disgust from outsiders is taken as confirmation.

Humiliation: A power oriented mindset treats public life as dominance theater, so “owning” becomes a social reward; laughing at someone’s shame bonds the in group quickly, and the pleasure of that bonding replaces the slower work of understanding.