• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    What kind of persond delights in seeing other people’s misery when they’re literally trying to follow the law for legal immigration.

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      I mean, it seems beyond sociopath. Sociopath is lacking empathy, but to delight in someone else’s misery… it’s psychotic.

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        5 days ago

        Curious if you mean psychopathic?

        I mean, it’s easy to joke that Republicans suffer from psychoses (hallucinations and delusions) but in the context of extreme antisocial behavior and lack of empathy, psychopathic might be the right word.

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      Literally a dangerous psycopath.

      This is basically ‘tortured kittens to death as a kid’ level shit.

      If you made a TV show or Movie where a character did this, people would say it was heavy handed and lacked subtlely, it is too over the top, it isn’t a well written bad guy (gal) character, it’s schlocky.

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        Sociopathic phychosis, to narrow it down a little more.

        It’s that lack of empathy that seems like the initial trigger.

        Edit: Sadistic sociopathic psychosis.