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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

republicans would light their own children on fire

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised they didn't try to light the beer on fire rather than just shooting the cans.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation (ie. conservatism – let's not pretend there's a non-authoritarian, non-dominant version) are both risk factors of torture-like abuse^1, so yeah, if they started seeing their children as something other than the in-group (maybe the kids got "woke"?), a huge percentage of them would probably have no qualms literally torturing them if they knew they wouldn't get punished for it

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Well, there was this one guy, who killed his child, just because God told him to.

So maybe this works out the same....