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It should have been me, not them. If I just owned the mods hard enough in debate, maybe they could have been saved.

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[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 1 points 23 hours ago

Liberalism counterposes the interests of the individual to the interests of the collective, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that illogically and wrongly implies that the collective isn’t made up of individuals. [….]

[…] When we proudly assert that we are for the individual over the collective, we’re essentially saying that some people count as people, and some don’t. At the heart of liberalism lies dehumanization. […]

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Wrt liberal individual arguments vs collective collaboration