Most people just want a good life. If we stopped seeing each other as the enemies the world could be better.

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    Amen.

    What the people who want to control us don’t want us to realize is that you have a lot more in common with the Chinese/Russian/Ukrainian/Mexican/Indian working class… Factory worker/programmer/hard-working house wife… Then you do with your own political leaders and billionaires. People with servants who don’t ever worry about bills. (Biden, Trump, Harris, Vance, Elon, Gates, Bezos, etc)… Don’t look at the foreigners as different and the enemy… Look at the Rich and the Politicians (who want us to blame the foreigners)

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    Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

    Let’s just be friends as they take away my rights and everyone I love rights away, we shouldn’t be enemies as they hunt down and murder someone for “existing”

    Maybe we shouldn’t be friends with the enemy and fight against the regime?

    This is one of the was Nazis came into power, by manipulating the mass thinking “oh we should all be friends” and now look what happened.

    -a trans non-binary disabled person

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    It’s by design. Divide and conquer Combine and conquer has been the playbook since they (anti-labor think tanks like the Progressive Policy Institute and others that seek to keep labor infighting) started studying group psychology.

    FPTP contributes more than its share to the tribalism and poor infighting we see in the US and the UK.

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          Yea you mentioned divide and conquer then put images of the parliament with and without FPTP. Its easily misinterpreted to say that proportional representation is somehow “divide and conquer”.

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            That’s interesting and you make a great point.

            From my perspective, I showed how a simple change to US and UK election laws can topple the two party system overnight.

            Literally, if there are only two private parties run by private organizations of rich people, they merely have to divide us and conquer us. We are being puppeteered by a bunch of corporations that use identity politics to keep the poor fighting amongst themselves and people SLURP THAT SHIT UP BECAUSE THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM CODIFIES IT INTO EVERY DECISION.

            Feudalism with a few more steps.

            Interesting point, though and I can see what you mean.

            Truly, if my comment were to make sense, I’d have to say they have “combined” and conquered.

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    I only see people as an enemy if they’ve declared themselves as such. I’m not gonna make the first move, life is too short to make enemies with everyone I meet. That said, if you’ve got a swastika tattooed on your forehead then I’m gonna take that as a declaration that you’re my enemy.

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    The major difference is money. We should be banding together against the rich, but instead we distract ourselves with what we look like, what we sound like, where we come from, what team (sports, town, city, state, country, …) we support, which sex we have, and a bunch of other things that divide us.

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    I don’t see MAGA people as the enemy because they want to pay less in taxes. I see them as the enemy because they don’t think my kids should exist in society and are actively passing legislation to make it so.

    Delete this shit take.

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    If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

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    Like South Park on religion: “you’re all so focused on the stupid little differences that you’re not seeing the big, stupid similarities.”

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    nah.

    I can’t have empathy for fuckheads that want to kill and imprison people based on their sexual preferences or their identity.

    I refuse to subject myself to the torture of “working together” with people with fascist ideologies.

    I cannot, and will not, coexist with Nazis.

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      I think op meant more along the lines of normal, everyday people, not radical extremists who hate everyone that isn’t like them.

      and by normal, I mean non hate driven people. I believe everyone is weird in some way, there is no “normal”.

      the way I described it to my son is everyone has the same right to be happy as he does, you don’t get to dictate that to anyone. we love you for your weirdness and expect the same for anyone else.

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        In many countries most normal people will harass, imprison or kill people based on sexual preference or gender identity.

        Just normal people. Not members of any extremist group. Just the guy who is selling groceries or the gal buying them. Most people on this world hate anyone who is different to them.

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        White supremacists are not radical extremists in the West, they are the norm. They might be more nuanced than those who display overt bigotry but not by as much as they like to tell themselves.

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    This is something we all need to remember

    Have empathy and realize that people can have there own views. They aren’t dumb because they disagree with you

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    I’m not sure that’s true. One side has empathy. The other does not. I don’t want to be friends with someone who doesn’t have empathy.

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      The world is not binary like that. Your side is not all good and the other side is not all bad.

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      I kind of see your point there. My hope though is that maybe people could gain more empathy for each other by understanding that we are all human and I hope that one day people can understand each other’s struggles.

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    Some are fascists. Some are not. That’s a pretty big distinction.

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    I think of people who vote for bad politicans as useful idiots.

    The average voter actually believe trump will make things better. There are people to somehow still believe trump isnt a racist. I don’t know whats going on with their brains.

    Like, of course there are those who are bigots and want more bigotry in government, but there are also many who are not exactly hateful racists or misogynists, they simply aren’t that smart and easily get swayed by social media posts.

    Think of them as victims of a scam (well, except that this is a on a much bigger scale and have more serious consequences 🙁)

    I mean I don’t expect people to forgive them for what they voted for, I mean I personally would have a hard time being around those types of people, but like, would you tell your grandparents: “It’s your fault you got scammed”

    I feel like a hypocrite for saying this, because on an emotional level, I hate hate everyone who voted for the fascist. But then when I think about the situation with my rational part of my brain, I realize people are just idiots and fall victim to the fascist scam. Its not necessary the person, but its that this is what our species is. A biological machine that although capable of rational thought, can still be easily manipulated.

    Yelling at a person and telling them that they are stupid isnt gonna get them out of the scam, but talking to them might.

    We aren’t in a civil war yet, there might still time for dialogue.