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His joy about all this (the emoji replies and memes) is really amazing. These people have 0 empathy. What's spectacular is he's not even smart enough to pretend to have empathy and somehow managed to outrun any consequences so far (our system is going to need some retooling when all this flames out so white collar justice is a lot faster). What's even more amazing and sad is people the people still worship him despite that.


They have zero empathy because the suffering is the goal. They have clearly stated this but for some people want to pretend the goal is efficiency.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...


He really is remarkably personally repellant. Like, even people who are ideologically aligned with him, I don’t understand how they put up with the persona.




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