maybe, i'm not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.
braxy29
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at some point, people have nothing left to lose. enough people like that and i'm sure it will happen.
please don't. this is the second time i have seen this today. yes, i know it is /s, but it's still reinforcing an association with the potential to hurt people.
lately i have been thinking about the notion that one way to fight fascism is not to use their language. every day i read comments on lemmy that are intended to mock fascists by repeating their narratives, and i fear they are only feeding it.
didn't we learn anything from the fact that internet shit-posting played a part in putting fucking 47 into power in the us?
but yeah. please stop conflating autism with nazism, regardless of what idiot felon-fans say to try to downplay it.
who is saying that?!
omg i have been trying to forget this since the last time i saw it 😢
they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.
nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway
edit (and at the people driving them)
to your last point, you're not wrong. a lot of people are so fucked they know it doesn't really matter, and i won't blame them for the state of the nation.
where i live, voting is not necessarily easy or convenient for folks relying on public transport. that much harder if they are, say, a working single parent living below the poverty level. and my work involves talking to people like this every day - there are millions like them.
is irc still a thing?
i gotta be honest, i'm not entirely sure what is intended. this decision doesn't make sense to me!
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to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.