It’s the same mental gymnastics for magats. They both think what they want is good. And that people that don’t think like them must suffer to change their minds or die.
And it’s so religiously ingrained in them. That the system cannot fail them. The system can only be failed. No amount of reality proving them wrong or resisting them will convince many of them otherwise. They will just double down on cruelty, oppression, and justification.
It’s wild that someone can be a tankie, at least for more than say a year or something until the novelty veneer goes away.
It’s the same mental gymnastics for magats. They both think what they want is good. And that people that don’t think like them must suffer to change their minds or die.
And it’s so religiously ingrained in them. That the system cannot fail them. The system can only be failed. No amount of reality proving them wrong or resisting them will convince many of them otherwise. They will just double down on cruelty, oppression, and justification.