fascism repels competence

tl;dr It means nothing, because he lies twice every time his mouth opens once eyeroll

Similar to domestic U.S. reaction to the current regime’s babble of conflicting messages: some selectively shrug off or swallow whatever’s convenient, some know it’s unreliable and often harmful but believe they’ll personally come out ahead so they accept some uncertainty, some see through it all to the naked corruption at the core. It’s a mistake to think millions of people will or can all believe the exact same things when it comes to something as complex as politics.

Schadenfreude isn’t quite “uplifting”

The Easter morning social-media tantrum was 100% a performance for his base. I guarantee everyone in Iran government who saw it, promptly muttered “what an utter dipshit” and didn’t change their plans one iota.

There’s a historical cycle where the helping professions rotate the terminology out, as the wider culture overloads the old terms with insulting usage. Eventually the new vernacular leaks out into general parlance and the cycle cycles. “Retarded” was once acceptable clinical terminology because "idiot, “moron”, and “imbecile” had accumulated cultural baggage. The latter terms were, themselves, once politically correct alternatives to even older terms.

I think it’s naive to think that THIS time is special, and today’s politically correct terminology won’t ever leak out into common usage as a slur too.