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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump wouldn't recognize hypocrisy if it walked up and kicked him in the balls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Norman Finkelstein said something the other day, quoting someone else...it was..."hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue". Meaning, evil people understand what they're doing is wrong, that's why they pretend to be good. Hypocrisy is beyond the point to them. They've sacrificed morality. Although I think Finkelstein was saying it in the context of talking about how Republican pols do so much less of even pretending to be good (though certainly not zero).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think Finkelstein's quote takes into account a severe narcissist.

In the narcissistic mind, the only right is something that benefits them, and the only wrong is something that harms them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, the proof's in the pudding - examine the evidence on this point, does he pretend to be something he's not, better than what he is?