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[+] -25 points 10 months ago (8 children)

It's your duty to educate the world around you, VOTE and work at fixing your society. So yes willingly or more like willingly letting others do it.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    You think people arent doing that? Have you been paying ANY attention to all the domestic backlash this shit is getting?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Of course they aren’t. It’s way easier to just say shit

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Blaming a shit situation on some form of failure of morals and/or effort in the victims is a far more platable concept than accepting that these situations grow from complex causes and many years of history, and could happen in their own environment to them.

    Doesn't help that the billionaires love this sort of attitude because it helps keep the little people playing crab bucket instead of coming together.

    Sneering "Why would I ever want to work with people so dumb they could let this happen to themselves?" while the rope continues to tighten around the neck of the whole damn world.

    You can look at a lot of crisises in history and see this sort of thinking used to push down groups living through them.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Thank god someone here gets it. That attitude is weirdly common here on lemmy and it serves as such a giant middle finger to the people fighting against the fascists every day, and especially vulnerable and oppressed groups who've been fighting with all we've got just for it all to fall apart anyways.

    I know these people aren't actually ops but it helps me sleep easier at night to assume they are.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Now isn't the issue, we need people to care during elections, not just get upset on the Internet and complain. Backlash is nice, but we need our electorate to pull their head out of their ass and remember they have a duty even when the choice sucks.

    We're here because 90 million people stayed home while Trump's voters showed up as scheduled. I blame non-voters as much as trump voters, and I hope those that chose to stay home remember to get off their lazy asses in 2028.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    As if I'm not fucking trying? They first came to power when I was a child, and I've been fighting them my entire adult life. Shut the fuck up about what my responsibility is, I've gone far and above that.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Ah yes because none of us have conversations with our FOX NEWS BRAINWASHED families and neighbors.

    Try convincing someone who's brainwashed by their desire for confirmation bias, served to them by propaganda, that you somehow know more than the media they love so much. Hell for an example, I even tried to get my father to change who he listened to, but without leaving fox news since he wouldn't trust anything else. His guy was Sean Hannity, the show that literally says "OPINION" on the bottom. I told him to at the very least listen to Shepard Smith who was at Fox at the time and was an actual journalist. He literally told me "Shepard Smith is too opinionated." ....the literal OPINION guy isn't opinionated to him, but the actual journalist saying just what happened during the day is...

    Try using sources that aren't their favorite media and hear the "that's fake news. That's liberal woke lies. That's transgender ideology." I've tried over and over and over. These people will never believe they're wrong until it affects them directly. Some will still dig their heels in and find a way to blame someone else anyway.

    Yeah we can totally just inform our world and it all magically gets better...

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