Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?

  • gon [he]
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    218 days ago

    That’s not a very generous interpretation of people… Though I can’t exactly contradict you.

    • @[email protected]
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      1118 days ago

      I’ve been lied to, gaslit, and blamed by my self-proclaimed “centrist” family my whole life, been called alarmist my whole life when i’ve been pointing at these very same things coming from a mile away. There are tons of others that did the same, at least alt-right MAGA freaks give you the time of day to argue. Centrists though? They’re the first to say they “dont really care much about politics” yet hold their heads high with masturbatory egotism and confidently proclaim “both sides are wrong, I disagree with extremists of any kind.” They’re betting their childrens lives and future on their own malicious ignorance, like that joke with the priest who denies life saving medication because “Don’t worry, God will take care of me,” but replace God with the Markets and you have the modern day peasant that’ll rat you out to soldiers for “heresy” and have you hung, disembowled, or burned at the stake. A person of self-interest is not a person of reason.

      • gon [he]
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        018 days ago

        “Centrist” is often a word for unscrupulous fence-sitter… It’s a shame you’ve experienced that. I despise self-proclaimed centrists as much as the next guy.

        Do you think they are the majority, though? Maybe it’s my echo-chambers, but that doesn’t feel like it’s the case. I’m not American, mind you.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          Pretty much my entire family fit under this category, plus at least 75% of the people i’ve met in my entire life, including schoolmates and work colleagues. Of the 25% that are barely conscious, 80% of them are (somehow and unfortunately) MAGA while 20% have moved into a tiny home or cabin somewhere to grow their own food. The MAGA crowd are at least looking around going “wtf, workers need to seize the means of production” meanwhile the centrist liberals are the ones going “things would’ve been better with Hillary or Kamala.”

          • gon [he]
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            517 days ago

            MAGA, those voting for a privatizing fascist cutting taxes for the rich working with the richest people in the world to further the goals of the owner-class, are looking around going “wtf, workers need to seize the means of production?” Are you sure?

            I can’t tell if you’re joking…

            • @[email protected]
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              517 days ago

              Yeah, those MAGA. The ones you typically see on youtube videos or twitter aren’t your average MAGA supporter, if you actually talk to one and ask them what they want, they start going off on things that even the most far-left Star Trek commie eutopianist could agree with, only to right at the end blame “the libtards!” or “DEI” or “immigrants” etc. They’re uneducated, they’re seeing things aren’t good and rightfully so, but they’re tricked into scapegoating before coming to the right conclusions.

              Centrists? They say “You shouldn’t pay attention to these things.”

              • gon [he]
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                217 days ago

                if you actually talk to one and ask them what they want

                Doubt I’ll ever get the opportunity, but I’ll take it if it presents itself.

                They’re uneducated, they’re seeing things aren’t good and rightfully so, but they’re tricked into scapegoating before coming to the right conclusions.

                Fuck…

                • @[email protected]
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                  217 days ago

                  Doubt I’ll ever get the opportunity, but I’ll take it if it presents itself.

                  If you do, don’t push. Instead, pull. Ask them questions, ask them “What do you want at the end of the day?” “To get the illegals out!” “Yeah but why? What is that a step towards?” Fact checking doesn’t work, lecturing doesn’t work, understand that they know no better than you know better than them. At least then there’s a fighting chance of having a conversation, seeing eachother as on the same side, and agreeing on who the real enemies are.

                  • gon [he]
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                    217 days ago

                    I’ll take your advice to heart. Thank you :D

          • @[email protected]
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            117 days ago

            I was with you until that last statement, I haven’t met a single centrist that supported (voted for) Hillary or Kamala

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              17 days ago

              I haven’t met a single centrist that supported (voted for) Hillary or Kamala let alone attended a protest or demonstration.

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      417 days ago

      I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice […]

      -MLK Jr. in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail