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Fox News "expert" says Hitler went to heaven (www.salon.com)

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My theory is that it's less that they're truly dumb as fuck, but rather that they're not particularly special -- or does that make them dumb as fuck, LOL? -- and there's almost a dunning-kruger like effect. They see how powerful they are, able to act with near-impunity, and they don't realize how much of that has to do with whatever distribution of power and hesitance to use state violence exists in the flawed but democracy-ish systems they're currently dominating.

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I think this is a lot of it. They have never been told no or told they were wrong and they have come to believe it’s because they are brilliant and infallible, not because they were born powerful and have never not been powerful.