How the fuck is Hungary still in the EU? 🙄

‘Divide and conquer’, surely 🤔

Edit: Sorry, seems ‘Divide and rule’ is also an accepted form, albeit rarely used and mainly in British English.

I get what you’re saying.

I think it’s worth considering that for what you’re saying to apply in this particular case, his hard-wired being-better-than-others reflex is being triggered by his not having committed suicide. A feat currently being pulled off by roughly 8 billion people.

Even if we ignore the nauseating specifics of what he said, this has to be the most pathetic brag in history. Imagine being such a loser that this is what makes you feel good. It’s difficult.

I’m guessing that there’s probably a large amount of shitty childhood, perhaps trauma, powering the engines of becoming this proficient at being an asshole, but I find it hard to care enough to contemplate how he could be fixed. It’s certainly too hard to feel sorry for him.

At the very least, I think the lack of giving a fuck about his current plight, and possibly the wish to see him punished, could easily be just as hard-wired in us.

There’s also your comment about him not learning the right lesson from this backlash. I’d argue that not all punishment is meant to reform the perpetrator; sometimes they’re sacrificed, as it were, to teach the rest of us a lesson.