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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry but you're gonna run out of friends pretty quick with that attitude, because eventually you'll all be attacking and labeling each other for your views falling short of some arbitrary perfection.

The above statement was joking about letting a random idiot who posed no threat die horrifically because of a label. If that's the monsters we're willing to become, then so much for the empathy we claim to champion.

It's simply a statement that didn't need to be made.

I recall everyone being justifiably disgusted at fascist muppets cheering on the murders of their political opponents by unhinged psychopaths drunk off their rhetoric.

But it's okay when we do it? That's MAGA shit. That's tankie shit. That kind of tribalism is the domain of the worst kinds of assholes.

We must defend ourselves, fight fascists, but if we lose our humanity in the process and get off to thoughts of our dead neighbors over stupidity, then what's the friggin point anymore?

Anyway, hope you're doing alright today. Stay safe out there.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the ol "they go low, we go high" bullshit.

How's that working out for us?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't recall supporting or pushing any such bullshit.

That's a weak political "strategy" slogan, by weak slightly-less-right politicians, to motivate their ineffective and self-interested party.

I'm not a politician. I'm just another working class person on the internet trying to do the best I can.

My message was really simple without adding a metric ton of preconceived notions: Dehumanizing other human beings is the quickest way to the wrong side of history. Simple as.

We fight our enemies because we must. We can win by whatever means we must use. If we choose to delight in and celebrate the death and suffering of non-combatants, we're no longer fighting evil. We're just another stupid faction in yet another of history's cyclical doomed conflicts.

The fact that "We shouldn't fantasize about our neighbors burning to death, however stupid they may be." is a controversial idea, might be why nobody can seem to meaningfully rally their opposition together.