• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    This is probably very shallow and naive but…

    I just completely fail to comprehend how any non- white person could be a MAGA supporter, or just conservative in general.

    It just seems like a complete failure to understand the fundamentals of the political divide.

    As in… Trump would send you back to Africa if it turned out he couldn’t enslave you.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t understand how anyone is, how callous to your fellow humans do you have to be?

      That aside, even white woman are in on the hate… Even of other woman ffs

      https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/

      That said, most people don’t think at all. They just go along with it

      Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut

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      I don’t understand how any person regardless of color could be a maga supporter. They’re openly hostile to everything that benefits ordinary people, and also very open about taking any money saved from cutting programs and giving it to the 0.1%. How can someone support that? How can someone go “hell yes! Poison the planet and steal my social security so that Musk can have even more money! Fuck yeah, brother!”? It makes zero sense.

      As in… Trump would send you back to Africa if it turned out he couldn’t enslave you.

      You can’t send someone “back” to somewhere they’ve never been. African Americans have been here almost as long as Caucasians.

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        The “send back to africa” part was sarcasm.

        In Australia “go back to where you came from” is the catch cry of xenophobes. There was a hate group in the 00’s that literally wanted to deport anyone of Asian descent, regardless of their migration status.

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      Colonized minds only see power in the behavior of their oppressor. So to become powerful like them, mimic their behavior and you will gain acceptance.

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    7 days ago

    The comment section of the top post on my Lemmy front page is currently advocating for a class war, with some highly upvoted comments implicitly and directly calling for the killing or robbing of wealthy people simply because they’re wealthy. If someone supports this rhetoric but opposes similar rhetoric from the far-right, then they’re being hypocritical.

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    7 days ago

    A man gets a bit of recognition in his tiny corner of the universe and starts believing he is god.

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        Good luck getting anyone in the left to act first. Hell, I’m crazy as a shithouse rat, and I wouldn’t start a war until there’s no other choice.

        Sadly, I think it will take active violence to stir resistance among the armed left to actually fight. It’ll be reactionary rather than revolutionary.

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          There’s never a single catalyst, a shining moment where they’ve clearly crossed the line. It’s a 1000 baby steps over the line, until gassing Jews seems like just another tiny change in a long line of changes.

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    I don’t believe for an instant that any of these people believe in any of their religions, just use them as means to justify their own vile sentiment and actions.

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      It’s worse. They completely believe their religions and it’s their god that commands them to kill the sinners. It’s a rationalization feedback loop: They are just doing what they are told to be proper religious folk.

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        That’s not what the religion they claim to follow teaches, so no, they don’t believe in their religion. They believe in the insane ramblings of politically motivated scammers.

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        That’s not a valid excuse. We didn’t accept it when the nazis said they were just following orders, and we won’t accept it now.

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              Probably would be easier to say when did we not?

              The most notable example that comes to mind is the guy who perpetrated the My Lai massacre getting house arrest, that only happened because of leaked documents going public.

              But it’s not the only one. Our soldiers love to take selfies with human trophies, and nothing meaningful happens when they do.