• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Time for the Sartre quote:

      Never believe that anti-Semites fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.