No, allowing fascists to continue being fascists is what got us here. I had sympathy and understanding for those people in the past, and now we have Nazis. I'm done with sympathy/understanding/tolerance of those who have none.
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You make the mistake of thinking that their resolve isn't already absolute. I think it's a luxury of ignorance of people who don't live in deep red states and don't know just how deep-seeded their fear and hatred of others is.
And no, I will no longer strive for "understanding" of fascists who hate and harm others. I understand them perfectly well, and their views disgust me. Those who do continue to "strive for understanding" are only enabling them, and are the people who have allowed the situation to get as bad as it has in the U.S.
But go ahead, keep tolerating the intolerant.
Isn't that just the progressive left? As far as I know we don't worship figureheads like the fascist right with their orange demigod.
For some years, a variety of news commentators and academics have called Donald Trump a fascist. I was one of those who resisted using that term.
Well we all make mistakes sometimes. You know what they say - "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today."
It's a great game, but it's also "baby's first Zelda" in terms of game mechanics. It's the first Zelda game my kid managed to play through on their own, and then when I had them try out LoZ, AoL, LttP, etc. they couldn't believe that you couldn't just bump into enemies without getting hurt by raising your shield.
It's far easier than even the Gameboy original, because back in the original you only had two buttons to assign items/equipment to, including the sword and shield, and the run boots weren't an inherent ability but rather were just another item to assign to one of your two buttons.
In the remake you can simultaneously use your sword, shield, jump feather, run boots, and I believe one more item to boot. It makes it literal child's play compared to other Zelda games.
That said... I wish they would remake more of them like that, because it is a great looking and fun to play game.
Honestly come to think of it, I do blame you and people with your attitude for the rise of fascism in the U.S. """Centrists""" kept tolerating them for decades, and they kept feeling more and more emboldened.
Do you believe yours is? Quite the job you're doing.
You're advocating for tolerating the intolerant. All you're doing is being the Kaiser Wilhelm-looking character in this comic about the Paradox of Tolerance:
https://i.imgur.com/Pelf2ob.jpg
Karl Popper described this as a paradox, but it's not even that.
Tolerance is a social contract that we all agree to participate in. By not tolerating others, conversatives/fascists have broken the contract, and are then no longer bound by or protected by it. Therefore it is not wrong or paradoxical to not tolerate the intolerant.
I'm not saying this is happening, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if we found out that Musk was leaking any and all traffic from Starlink, including Ukraine military comms, in the name of """free speech""".