• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Or antisocial in the psychological sense, ie “I see it, and I’m not rich, but people suffering under me makes me feel superior, gives me the dopamine rush of schadenfreude, and I’ll just go ahead and make shit up in my head about why I believe they deserve their suffering so I can just revel in how much better I’m doing guilt free.”

    As an American, its a tragic reality that 10s of millions of us are proud sadists. Not entirely our fault, our owners gained their fortunes by not caring about how their profiteering hurt others, ane they propagandize us to worship and deify them and their mindset of If I hurt you to benefit myself, its just business.