How maga learned to love state violence. nazi germany. communist russia. maga america.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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Pretty sure it happened back in slavery times.
Amerikkka was born from the British. State violence was baked in from day one.
You can't blame it all on the British.
For example, the Puritans fled England due to religious persecution, but one of the first things they did when they arrived in America was hang Quakers. King Charles II was forced to explicitly forbid Massachusetts from executing Quakers, and was forced to send in a royal governor to enforce religious toleration and help pass laws to that effect.
Christian religious extremism and its love of violence, is typically American.
I mean, do you think it's entirely a coincidence that waterboarding, a torture technique which became popular when an American christian-conservative government fought wars in Muslim countries, was first used during the Spanish inquisition? The inquistors enjoyed the religious dimension of it, because it was a bit like baptising their victims in water, cleansing the heretic of his sins.
“This is the psychology of fascism, and it doesn’t require jackboots or swastikas. It just requires enough people who have learned to derive pleasure from watching the state hurt the right people.”
Is it just pleasure or is there also something like the joy of the relief of “choosing the right side, the one which is powerful, the one which can protect them”? This is an honest question.
The other thing I’d like to mention and what I think also plays a role in this: US Americans are indoctrinated from a very young age, that their country is the one with the most freedom, the best constitution, the greatest presidents, … and in addition to this they rarely get any news about other countries, other political solutions to problems we are all facing. Which means a lot of US Americans don’t know that there are better political solutions, they don’t know that there are other countries more free than them and they also don’t know they don’t have the best constitution.
Yep. They basically have a state religion, where they venerate the founding fathers, pray to a flag, and venerate the constitution like it's a religious text.
Excellent article