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the internet sure is fun
I used to joke “I would resist Trump’s coming fascist dictatorship, but Obama’s socialist Muslim theocracy took all my guns.”
But it’s been a while since I thought any such warnings were funny. Sorry I ever did.
I find a large part of being a leftist is taking down stickers/flyers and putting up other stickers/flyers too
It’s just the classic. Everything is over exaggerated and not a big deal until it personally affects you. Then you realize everyone who’s talking about this is going through the same thing or worse. Until the next issue comes up and these people go right back to the sidelines to tell leftists they’re overreacting.
I still roll my eyes at “the cruelty is the point” sometimes because it’s a bigass cudgel used by Leftists to stop any possible discussion about improving something.
Sometimes the cruelty is the point. Sometimes the cruelty is unknown to the people who are unintentionally inflicting it. Sometimes the cruelty is just the necessary outcome of an unfeeling universe and no one can stop it.
If you can’t acknowledge that, then you’re just as dumb and brainwashed as the MAGAs.
If the cruelty wasn’t the point then effort would be made to alleviate it, the universe might not feel but people are capable of it.
That’s the entire part of the concept of “what makes us human”
then effort would be made to alleviate it
That’s the eye-rolling part. Effort, in many cases, IS being made to alleviate it. But committee meetings and policy proposals and exploratory hearings are BORING, and anyway none of that stuff is on TikTok so does it really exist?
The saying “the cruelty is the point” is often an indicator of someone who is very uninformed and yet still has strongly held beliefs. It’s an inability to see the complicated, messy reality. It’s a childlike desire for a simple world with a Bad Guy to fight against.
Sometimes there is one. We do live in a world with cartoonishly evil, over the top bad people. But sometimes that’s just not how it works.
Those methods of alleviation are exactly what Trumpists are banning and prohibiting
