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  • i do admit the bias of my sampling, but also at the same time:

    Unless you’re sitting down and going “so that trump, huh?” With every person you meet.

    yeah… i mean i do end up doing this much of the time? my time and labor is valuable… i’d rather not waste it on working with fascists, but i recognize i have the privilege of making that choice due to the kind of work i do.

    if you lived during the reich would you not be like “so how ‘bout that hitler?” to every person you met??? i would???


  • i honestly am skeptical of western media’s narrative that everyone is complacent and doesn’t give a fuck. i’ve met a lot of people. every single one of them gives some sort of a shit about politics. it feels like homegrown astroturfing to keep anything from ever actually coming to a head. keep people feeling alone and isolated, hopeless. if 60-80% of americans are complacent, don’t participate civically, and are actively disengaged from the political process… then where are these people? i should be seeing them in droves right? but i’m not, and neither is anyone i know. my network isn’t really geographically limited either. anecdotal evidence regardless, sure, but still suss imo.

    i’ve seen the statistics and polls, the election results and non-participant ratio, you don’t need to share those sources with me.

    idk, maybe i’m fucking crazy and a conspiracy theorist. a wise man once said that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.



  • They’ve handily proven time and time again in recent memory how they can in fact just do things and the rest of the world will sit back and take it lying down, though. That’s the problem. Anyone who thinks it’s just an America issue or something like that grievously misunderstands the tenuous house of cards that the pax americana and era of modern peace is built upon. Realistically, how far are you willing to go to prevent fascism? Would you die for it? Would you crawl through the trenches in a land many seas away from home? Some people might say yes but realistically most Westerners and others would never dare give up their creature comforts. It’s not delusional to think the world can change in the way they suggest precisely because they’ve suggested it - that is the hallmark of the fascist movement and what ties their collective ethos together, a philosophy of domination in all aspects.

    Idk in short, I agree that yeah these people are certainly morally bankrupt. Lots of them are delusional. Any group of people has some like that. That doesn’t mean we should strawman them. There’s lots of idiots and they might think the US could invade Greenland without causing a international crisis. Either fortunately or unfortunately, these aren’t the people saying that the US wants to own Greenland or that we should go to war with Iran, for example.

    The people who control and run this movement are not delusional. They’re dangerous.





  • Well, not to play devil’s advocate, but they do own and control virtually every facet of global society…

    Granted, probably not for much longer. But, it is pertinent that we live in the status quo we do.

    Over the years we’ve gradually seen this ratio in society of wealth vs the size of the population it is concentrated getting more and more grotesque. First we had the 1%, then the 0.1%, then the 0.00001%… shit recently we saw that some ridiculously small number of individuals you can count on your hands own over half of the entire globe’s wealth.

    Does this mean these people are somehow superior superhuman specimens? No, of course not.

    I’m not so willing to accept that the increasingly small circle of people who control society is decided by lot, either, though. When global wealth is further concentrated, how do they even decide who gets kicked off the island, so to speak? Everyone has their snarky answer of how they can so obviously see how this works, usually based on their life experience or something they’ve read, but I genuinely don’t think anyone public is privy to the true nature of this system. And you or I are in no place to even ponder it, or make wild conjecture, as it exists in a world so far removed from us as to be alien. We couldn’t even know where to begin.




  • thank you for not giving in to their rhetoric and letting this point die.

    i get endless downvotes on all social media anytime i say a civil war is the absolute fucking worst outcome of any of the current trends.

    guess people are just out for blood rn. i wouldn’t make it sound so innocent, tho. why are people out for blood? lots of answers, none satisfying enough.





  • of course he means it literally?

    that’s why i think, as i said, his comment is reductionist. the key word is

    I think the only bad thing…

    he’s just trying to draw an edgy hyperbolic narrative that the world only cares about the Holocaust in particular not because it is a genocide but because it threatened the international status quo. he’s wrong, but he’s not a nazi, at least as far as i can tell from his singular comment. i won’t come up to bat for the original commenter, he very well could be a bigot or a nazi. i don’t have enough context to know as a reader. his use of leftist diction and the way he wields it is a pretty strong indicator that this was his intended thesis, on top of obvious contextual clues.

    man fuck idek what else to say. your response here is purely reactionary, you aren’t even saying anything other than reaffirming things you’ve already said.


  • i don’t agree with the original comment bc it is pessimistic reductionism but i think you and the people dogging on it severely lack media literacy and critical thinking skills, as kindly as that can be stated.

    in what way is the former reading more likely than the latter??

    you need to make far more assumptions about the original comment and commenter to come to the conclusion that he made the comment out of some weird bigoted malice than to just accept the obvious reading of it being a commentary on global society’s attitudes towards various genocides.

    jesus fucking christ i see this shit all over the internet and it is why our society is collapsing. just droves of people behaving and thinking in ways that would fucking abhor a literature teacher from even just a decade ago.