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[โ€“] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good. They should make them seem as human and sympathetic as possible, show the entire slide of emotional manipulation that made otherwise normal people adopt a narrative and made them believe themselves doing right and good as they did atrocities or stood by while their leaders and peers did atrocities.

And then kill 'em anyway. Because there are consequences for being dumb, and we don't show that enough.

[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

That would work for people like you or me. Unfortunately, there seems to be a mass of people who have no idea how to make the distinction that surface level niceness means nothing, and mean people can be mean for good reasons.