• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
    43·
    6 months ago

    You can tell this person is reasonably intelligent. They are articulate enough to present this as an actual argument.

    And yet they’re still capable of falling into fallacy and propaganda.

    Just a reminder that this is the type of person to watch out for in real life. This is an obvious example, but intelligent sounding people are still susceptible to such bullshit, and theyre the ones who do the best to make it sound right.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      141·
      6 months ago

      American diabolism is a hell of a drug.

      There’s plenty wrong with the US if that’s your concern, and no need to invent the kind of brain-rot that leads to takes like “I want to move from the US to the DPRK because they actually respect workers.”

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    36·
    6 months ago

    Funny how they conflate actual slavery with ‘wage slaves’ which is something totally different and also wasn’t different in the south at the time anyway.

    Slaves were also not guaranteed food, housing nor even life. Conforming slaves got the minimum of those things so that they could continue being slaves.

    Unfortunately, when I was growing up in the south, this sort of bullshit was actually being taught in schools.

  • bigbluealien@kbin.social
    251·
    6 months ago

    Fuck it, this isn’t going away, can we appropriate “Northern Aggresion” to mean anti slavery? You want to keep slaves? You’re about to get some Northern Agression. It seems justified but that might just be me