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You don't have to be mentally ill to be these things. Considering the type of people that rule our world

(epstein ) it seems that the most well adjusted people in our society are not only more than capable of being this, it seems like a requirement.

So I am no longer comfortable using the word psychopath (or any other "dark triad" nonsense) to describe these types of people. These people aren't struggling to function with a mental illness, they're of the exact mindset that thrives in our backwards society.

However I'm struggling to think of a suitable replacement word that carries with it the same "This is serial killer coded shit" vibe that calling someone a psychopath carries (and associating such a thing with psychopaths is ableist so I don't want to use the word in that way anymore)

Calling them ghouls, fascists or nazis doesn't carry the same weight. What kind of word bests describes the casual, dangerous heartlessness of people without throwing the mentally ill under the bus?

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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 21 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

demon

say it with as much disgust and venom as you can muster

prob bonus points as the target is likely a christian supremacist

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

IIRC They say the Antichrist will appear to people as a godly person, right?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm tossing around an idea where the Great Satan is the Dragon spoken about in Revelations. Trump is the beast of the West (had a head injury, mouth flows with blasphemies, has power granted to him by the Dragon), and AI is the beast of the Earth (it's literally made of minerals from the earth, it will make the world and all the people in it worship the first beast). The war being "waged against the saints" is actually the war waged against the Axis of Resistance, the fire he makes come down from heaven is air strikes, the miracles he deceives with are AI slop, the "Mark" is face ID if they don't just lean into it and chip us.

Turning the Evangelical obsession with Armageddon on its head. Rub it in their fucking faces. ^10^He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

[–] Sabbo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Whenever I heard that all of god's chosen would ascend unto heaven I assumed that meant they were all killed.

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What my pastors always said is that the Antichrist would essentially have their own cult. It might be a political cult, but of course those are those nasty socialist liberals, not chuds.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

ie: "You relish in grinding up the poor for your own gain. You don't even pretend it's bad, you enjoy it, you think it's normal. You're a demon, there's no two-ways about it, and one day you'll get what you deserve"

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

borderline sephiroth posting here but fuck it, the bounds of liberal civility really do let these freaks off scot free for demonic shit and they aren't scared enough

[–] restless@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

I decided to write a poem about this just now. Might be a bit rough around the edges.

The Demonic Impulse

With so-called holy furor They abolish your freedoms And relish in human suffering Your agonies are their lullabies

The impulse exists within most of us The desire to see enemies laid low Put in their place For daring to resist 'the obvious truth'

It matters not which god you do it for It matters not which master you serve Or if you do it for no one at all

It is the path of demons The path of cruelty The path of treachery

When it becomes your agenda To mete out the absolute To define truth as your words alone And disagreement as treason

When it becomes your right To punish the punished To torture the tortured To ridicule that which you do not understand

To slide down the scale And let contempt consume you That they deserve your hatred For not being you

It's to plunge your humanity into the tarpit To wrest it by the neck and hold its face beneath the threshold To revel in the bubbles which rise to the surface And to spit on its weakness when the last one pops

You pull it back up, lungs full of rot Flesh seared and melded with the impulse This is what you breathe now This is what you feel now This is what you are now

Unfit for power Unfit for polite society You murdered the human within And joined the ranks of the Demons

And so now we ask each other Huddled amidst ourselves What is to be done about the devils Who seek a thousand thrones sewn from our faces

What is to be done When you try to act Like what you've done Is normal

What is to be done When you continue trying to pretend you're human When the stench of your dead, rotted soul Wafts in with every word you belch

The vile contempt you hold For all that is living and good The very concept of goodness in your mind Has been unrecognizably disfigured

Fuck you.

We've given you a billion chances To keep your disgusting mouth closed Before we came to the foregone conclusion That you'll get what's coming to you

One way or another

[–] d_cagno@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I like this one. Works great if you almost hiss it

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

meh i don't think that or satanic etc have any weight when they say it either.

[–] Dr_Pepper@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

I second demon