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Dear liberals, please for the love of god learn that, for fascists, overt hypocrisy is a demonstration of dominance and power. It’s the whole point. They like it when you point it out.
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He conducted, in other words, a simple cost–benefit analysis. When I asked about any other thoughts or feelings he might have been having that contributed to his decision to donate, he replied, ‘I guess I would say I am super-rational – I do not get emotional about the decisions I make.’ On one of the standard empathy scales we used in the study, he reported his own levels of empathy to be very low. I had no reason to doubt anything he said about himself. It was clear from his professional accomplishments in the technology sector and the way he described other decisions he had made that he was capable of sophisticated rational analysis. But our data revealed that rationality was not all that he was capable of.
The Fear Factor
Abigail Marsh
On their arrival in England, Hobsbawm's youthful political activism came to an abrupt end: his uncle and aunt forbade him from joining the Communist Party or the Labour Party.
Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest (1917–2012), historian
Martin Jacques
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