Thread by @JoshuaCypess

1/ Looking at the OpenSchoolsNow position by the GOP, I need to revise my opinion on their similar gun-nut position about schools.

I mean, whenever there'd be a school shooting I'd ask them: "Do you like to see kids killed?!" but they'd dismiss me & shame me for this assumption

2/ Their counter-argument was that they just loved guns and freedom and were afraid of tyranny and the massacres were just a sad price of freedom.

But the GOP is now taking the same nihilistic position about schools with the pandemic as they do w/guns!

3/ It's the same rhetoric about guns with the masks: "freedom." It's pretty obvious now that the GOP is a cult with scary parallels to murder-suicide cults of history. It's thus likely that their fetish for guns is the same type of cultish mentality. The deaths are worth the cost

4/ And while 30-40% of the population may be part of this #GOPDeathCult, at least 60% are not. Probably more. And we can now say with ever stable clarity that their position on guns is as horrifying as we, I, first assumed

So now let's drill down & ask: do they love the deaths?

5/ It's so hard for me to accept that another human would love another human to die, but the #TrumpCrisis has shown the world that the GOP is actually fine with that.

The only positive spin is that some are so stupid, they don't actually believe people are dying; "It's a hoax"

6/ I've said before that the argument from idiocy/ignorance is still pretty evil b/c basic morality demands that people minimally investigate whether they're supporting mass murder

OK. So, aside from those unfeeling goons, we're left wth many others that seem OK w/mass death

7/ This is where Supremacist ideology comes in. A supremacist believes everyone beneath them is subhuman & thus their death isn't mourned, it's either considered grimly necessary or - for some - actively enjoyed

The GOP now sports many examples of this.

8/ See how illegal immigrants are determined to be worthy of brutality, imprisonment & death by the GOP. Kids torn from their parents & kept in cages all for the crime of... a misdemeanor

Their torture is not seen as a significant moral blip to the GOP

9/ It's all disturbingly fascist, and very close to N*zism. Which is why I called them #TrumpConcentrationCamps. I break down when I think of the torture & death but the GOP ignores it or thinks its a fair outcome for subhumans or actually enjoys the misery

10/ There was a great article/thread from a few months back (trying to find it, sorrry) that explained how the White Supremacist/fascist worldview looks at weakness as the worst crime.

(Note, there's a strong correlation with toxic-masculinity & fascist ideology as well)

11/ Fascists think weakness is worthy of death and illness is weakness. So they stride around mask-less b/c they believe their genes & personal might will either repel the virus or they assume they'll accept the consequences of illness

It's a toxic fantasy, of course

12/ These fascists will howl bloody murder if they get sick, blame all their favorite targets for the contagion, and forget about their ideology of Mightiness. But these dolts aren't long-term thinkers (often #Literalists or just stupid)

Suffice to say: fascism = fine w/death

13/ The GOP has clearly become a fascist party actively trying to turn America into an apartheid oligarchy. This is fact, acc. to @TimothyDSnyder, & while he describes sadopopulism as a tactic, my point is that it's also a ideal & goal for fascists: they lust to kill the weak

14/ Thus the connection b/w gun-lust, school-shootings & forcing schools to open amid a pandemic: the only ones who will suffer are the 'weak' and to these sadistic fascists, that's an actual goal

The guns do double duty, of course, b/c a gun is Deadly Force In Their Hand

15/ But ultimately, the lust for guns would stand on it's own, the fact that innocent people get slaughtered doesn't enter into their mindspace b/c the victims were weak & shouldn't be mourned.

I'm sure a number of the toxic-men like the option of going on their own rampages too

16/ In sum: opening schools in a pandemic is the same murder-lust that the GOP supports with their lust for guns. They're fascists. They believe the weak need to die. They either ignore the pain as irrelevant, or they actually enjoy the biological Darwinism.

And, yes, it's evil

17/ It's as evil as I originally thought. When I accused them of liking the massacres, and they cried foul at my accusation, it was the same hypocritical act they perform when accused of racism.

They know open racism is shunned. But they do love it. Same w/guns. Same w/the virus

@threadreaderapp please unroll for now. If I find those articles referenced above, I'll add them as appendices

PS/ Finally found the source for post #10 above, about the ideology of supremacists and their desire to kill the weak (BTW, straight out of the Amalek playbook):

https://twitter.com/Natascha_Strobl/status/1247606764914302979?s=20