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minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up29·3 days agoI think some of them say stupid stuff as a weird power move - “yeah I said bullshit what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you’re weak” This is a factor in why fascists only really respond to power. It’s all they understand, and even that understanding is limited.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·3 days agoI have brought up “cruelty signalling” and “vice signalling” a number of times as a conservative counterpart to “virtue signalling”… But MAGA seems to have progressed it to “ignorance signalling”, to show your allegiance to Dear Leader, you must project your idiocy in his likeness.
minus-squareManjushri@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoTechnically it’s still a form of virtue signalling since they really do consider ignorance a virtue.
I think some of them say stupid stuff as a weird power move - “yeah I said bullshit what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you’re weak”
This is a factor in why fascists only really respond to power. It’s all they understand, and even that understanding is limited.
I have brought up “cruelty signalling” and “vice signalling” a number of times as a conservative counterpart to “virtue signalling”…
But MAGA seems to have progressed it to “ignorance signalling”, to show your allegiance to Dear Leader, you must project your idiocy in his likeness.
Technically it’s still a form of virtue signalling since they really do consider ignorance a virtue.