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@Double_R
Trump is well known for being the internet’s biggest bully, a childish man who spent half his time in office tweeting insults at everyone he didn’t like from politicians to world leaders to celebrities. But you have a problem with Joe Biden being insulting.
Of course he doesn’t. I suspect he doesn’t really care about any of the faux outrage that he peddles. At this stage I don’t think it’s valid to reply as if he does - or anyone who makes these sort of posts on Twitter, 4chan, etc.
For some on the right, the issue is one of doublethink. That they do care about insults, crimes, ethics, etc, but compartmentalize and don’t let those two arguments meet. They’re the ones that get angry and shouty when you point it out.
There are many right wing individuals, however, on Twitter, parler, etc: many in the conservative media - and GP - that don’t.
In these cases, the guiding principle doesn’t appear to be any form of ethical standard, or reasoned ideology - the guiding principle is simply the unifying primacy of attacking a political opponent. What is true or false is not relevant, what is right or wrong - is not relevant, debate is not relevant, contradiction is not relevant. All that is relevant is whether a collection of statements or facts can be arranged in such a way that can attack the opponent - no matter how valid, contradictory, hypocritical that attack ends up being.
“This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation”
In many respects - the whole point of this, is to prevent rational discussion by trying using incendiary nonsense to goad people into spending maximum effort engaging - but putting no effort in, and not engaging himself.
