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  • My theory is cowardice. Born from constantly being pummelled with fear mongering and propaganda, mind you. But cowardice nonetheless.

    Would directly explain the desperation for a “strong” leader no matter the cost. As well as pave the road to deeper bigotry, misogyny, and plain old fashioned racism; there must be a pretty deep cognitive dissonance to internalize all that fear, but still attempt to maintain that they care about “doing the right thing”. Anyway, that psychological torment has to be someone’s fault.

    Worst though, is to witness all the evil and suffering coming from this faction and their leaders, but to at the same time know that if I cannot find some level of honest compassion for these individuals, then I have no chance of getting through to them (with some of them, that might not even be possible anymore). Forgive the sinner, not the sin, sure makes it sound simple. Hint: it’s not. It’s, well, fucked up and awful, to say the least.

    But our options are running out, and without solidarity there will be no viable path forward. The only path left will go in the wrong direction for a terrible distance, involving untold violence and death before there will be any chance to start moving forward again. Even the best of our options sadly will almost certainly involve widespread suffering and loss of life.

    I will do everything I can to hold onto hope. But I will not deny that we all need to do whatever we can to ready ourselves for the worst, and that I cannot let my hope blind me to the truth.







  • forrgott@lemm.eetoBooks@lemmy.worldF**k Amazon, part 2
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    No.

    You’re doing none of this.

    You’re retroactively applying the motivations of some of the writers of a cartoon to the entire body of work, as well as to somebody taking a single frame out of context.

    You ain’t advocating for shit; you’re advertising your own high opinion of yourself and disdain for others. You have petty insults, and actually applaud yourself for thinking that is advocating reform.

    Your entire game is reacting to anything you disagree with. You are the perfect example of the word.

    And even if I were opposing social reform (which I’m not; I’m trolling morons on a forum), that’s not what reactionary means. Because reactionary behavior exists everywhere on the political spectrum; it has absolutely nothing to do with whether you are “left” or “right”. And guess what? Gaslighting is another common tactic of reactionaries. Oops.