Diary of Anne Frank

"the GOP has never been a party of principle. they just pick up principles and wave them around performatively whenever it serves their interest, and drop them in the trash as soon as their usefulness ends. they're for state's rights when there are democrats in the oval office, and otherwise they are for top-down federal rule. they're for the second amendment when white radicals are shooting at nancy pelosi's house, and firmly against them when people of color are forming community police forces. free speech is precious if some neckbeard yokel wants to yell the N-word on twitter, and should get you deported if a leftie says something mildly critical of the dear leader." - May 13, 2025 - https://old.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1klt0wq/trump_caved_and_got_zero_in_return_pundits/ms65g06/

I disagree on several things.

1. It does not establish context of humanity, this isn't a USA / North America geography issue. it is a human brain issue. Middle East Levant clergy does the same things.

2. There are principles, Faith in Hate. Faith in dehumanizing the gentiles, dehumanizing infidels, etc.

3. "they just pick up principles and wave them around performatively" - that's what people have done throughout history. Line up to symbols and icons they don't really stand up for when they aren't popular. Right now, Malala from Swat Valley Pakistan in May 2025 isn't popular. Her ideas are great. So are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1954 equations on hate, great stuff, but people are flocking like sheep - not trending on social media, not popular. MLK Jr covers that issue of toxic popularity. MLK Jr: "Most people can't stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody's not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what's right."

4. "they just pick up principles and wave them around performatively" - behavior is by no means only GOP political party members. That is Rupert Murdoch media audience, Reddit media consumers, Lemmy media consumers, Bluesky media consumers, Twitter media consumers, people I have met in families (marriage not meaning eternal lifetime, despite being the only all future util death vow made in adult choice lifetime, you don't make such a promise to your profession, but you do in marriages. And people put no effort into overcoming mistakes / errors, despite no ability to know in 40 years what two people will be like from age 25 - how they will be at age 65 - predicting the future).

5. People are attracted to mocking and mockery. anti-GOP is just as engaged with Donald Trumpism total mockery !TotalMockery@lemm.ee - this is a global behavior, Jewish mocking Muslims, Hindu mocking Muslims, Muslims mocking Hindu (Pakistan, India, Iran, etc, etc, etc).