In Reply to: I think the real problem here is the MAGA MORONS posted by Bruinfan4ever on August 19, 2025 at 08:40:24
nurturing a cultural environment where we care about injustice and aggression only if it affects us.
Call me old school moralist but I think we need to foster a different approach to these kinds of incidents and look at them with the mindset of how we are connected to other human beings through a fundamental moral thread as opposed to fixating on what it says about our security in our corner.
I understand that that sense of kinship with other human beings is not instinctive for MAGA, who barely register other people as human beings or has been culturally brought up in a way that emphasizes empathy. But by the same token, I don't think MAGA particularly cares that much about national security and indirect arguments built around that either. They are not cerebral people. They are very emotional people whose emotional range is limited to here and now, and only themselves plus a handful of people they personally know and like. There is a sense of callousness to anything that's abstract or distant to them.
So if that's the argument that works best for you, go for it. I am sure there are a handful of people in MAGA who can respond to reason. I personally believe that the mind follows the heart. The mind is there to rationalize what the heart already tells you. I personally think the moral argument and appeals to a sense of justice and humanity is more likely to get a response, even from the most unreachable corners of MAGA who reached to their current political state through a sense of confusion rather than some profound psychopathy (I mean, did you see Moon's post up there?). Perhaps I'm generalizing myself because when I see things like Ukraine or Gaza, I react to them from a purely personal place as a human being, with little consideration for national security, so maybe that's why I think that needs to be the primary base of action. I'll admit that.
(Note that the moral argument and appeal to justice does not mean becoming the world's policeman, and that would be a related by different discussion, IMO.)