he was doing exactly what their political ideology encouraged and allowed him to do. it makes no sense. this dude is just as evil as any other CEO who is condemning people to slave labor or whatever other example you'd want to give, so why is it that if people said those CEOs should get the same treatment, most right wingers would lose their shit? i think personally it's because their lives are detached from the suffering all the other CEOs cause, but they probably had a family member or friend personally die due to how health insurance works in this country. so they aren't even being based or anything, they're just selfishly saying it's bad when their family suffers the consequences of capitalism with no care for anybody else who has to in other ways.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

he was doing exactly what their political ideology encouraged and allowed him to do

Most people don't consciously have an explicit political ideology. They have an assortment of things they do or do not like and will call themselves whatever their favorite talking head (or the status quo if it is working well for them) describes themselves as
That talking head is usually chosen based on which of the collection of likes/dislikes the person finds most important

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

This is what Zizek calls a Pure Ideology. One in which there is no self-reflection to align ones values with an ideology that actually has those values. Instead the material conditions of the world around them make it impossible for them to do so.

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