Do cold hearted aspies admire political "monsters"

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I've often wondered about the psychology of people in the arms trade - particularly the designers and engineers. Do they want to design weapons in the first place, and so do the requisite learning? Or do they want to do something other than design a contraption that can really f**k people up, but just fall into it?

This 'Asperger's = reason incarnated' thing is such BS.

This fantasy of 'rational' is itself highly emotive.

I have emotions aplenty - too much for my liking. I have Alexithymia, I get depersonalised quite a bit and tend to dissociate (occasionally wilffuly, mostly it just happens). It doesn't make me more 'rational', but it does make a lot of life harder to negotiate. In a crisis, I can sometimes dissociate and keep calmer, which is helpful. That's about it. Otherwise, it is likely to make me more 'irrational', as I am not fully aware of all that I should be, and so find it harder to come to an appropriate solution.

Politics - a 'monster' is typically one who goes against 'our' interests. Otherwise it's, 'yes, they are strict, but the situation is volatile, it could be worse' etc. Those who can sit in charge of the world as it is, with the misery and suffering their rules and actions cause, and still sleep at night, are 'monsters'. Brutality abounds, but it's systemic, so it's not noteworthy. It is precisely the brutality that can't be subsumed into the system that shocks.

You are a complete troll. Go crawl back under your bridge and DIE, no one will miss you.

DO NOT feed trolls by responding to them, lostonearth35! Ignore them until they start spamming and try to harass you via PM and then they'll get banned.



Speaking of political monsters, I have always had a morbid fascination with Croatian Nazi dictator Anton "Ante" Pavelic. Better known as the Poglavnik(fuehrer). He slaughtered nearly 1,000,000 people but the exact number will never be known. And while he didn't have the opportunity to kill as many as Nazi Germany did under Hitler, he made up for it by torturing his victims to death at Europe's most gruesome concentration camp: Jasenovac.

His government came to power through a militia know as the Ustaše; which is Croatian for "insurrection". This was the Croatian equivalent of the SS which came to power in 1932 and established the internationally unrecognized Independent State of Croatia. Pavelic enthusiastically supported the *final solution*. His motivation wasn't racial, it was religious: The Jews had resisted conversion to Christianity and needed to be annihilated. The orthodox Serbs would also be annihilated to restore Croatia to a 100% Catholic nation.

During the early 1940s he organized one of the bloodiest pogroms of the 20the century where the Jews of Zagreb were rounded up by a Croatian mob and then disemboweled alive(or hacked to death with machetes)and whole pieces of their bodies placed in a butcher shop with the label "Košer mice"(kosher meat).

Grizzly stuff.

What's with all the necroing lately? Why are posters delving into the brackish depths of the PPR archives and dredging up these ancient threads from days of yore?

Not that I have a problem with necroing per se, just curious why it's been all over PPR these past few days.

Most of the necroing seems to be being done by fairly new posters. Not sure if it's the same person.