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This is kind of easily explained :
Evil does not care if you're not 100% evil. If you're tainted even a little, that's good enough for them.
Good is obsessed with purity. If you are imperfect, or if you disagree on any point, they consider you tainted and play right into Evil's hand.
And yes, Left vs Right is just Good vs Evil, I don't think that's an unpopular statement here.
People need to accept imperfect allies
Also what are you going to do with the Evil people? Better have them turn to your side. If they don't have the option because they've been on Evil side then there's no incentive for them to change, on the contrary. Does this mean criminals get out free? Of course not, it means hiring criminals after their sentence; treating them like people. Not throwing them out of society forever marked as Evil. Some won't change for sure, but that doesn't mean we should treat everyone the same and refuse to take what we can rather than have them support more Evil because they're forever tainted and refused the opportunity to change
I think using the basic approach that everything, including evil, is on a spectrum.
My biggest issue with people that at least presents themselves very loudly and publicly as left is that they call anyone that mildly disagrees with them right wing. And to them right wing, even center right, equals extreme right equals Nazis.
Iβm not sure whether these people are too dumb to recognize they paint themselves into a corner all the time, are useful indoors idiots for the extreme right or worse some ultra right wing uboots.
If you want to shift society to the left, which is needed worldwide, you canβt be ultra purist holier than thou in your approach.
tl;dr: Evil is not an absolute.
Yup, because nobody is perfect. Everybody fucks up, thats just life.
There's no such thing as good or evil. Everyone thinks they're good. And trust me neonazis are pretty obsessed with purity
thank you. yeah the "good is obsessed with purity" part made my skin crawl
I agree but Nazis will accept anyone until itβs time for their trip to the camps and chambers.
Also not true. These people have blood feuds and shootouts with each other mate. You can even see this playing out in real life on Xitter daily.
Proud Boys was literally headed by a black man.
What's your point?
If they were so obsessed with purity, they wouldn't follow a black man.
This isn't how it works. Not every fascist is the same. This in fact why there's constant infighting between the fash.
Yet we see one of the most destructive judges of the SCOTUS being black and the leader of the German right wing extremist party AFD being a lesbian in a relationship with a woman of color. These are just 2 examples on the top of my mind.
The guys on top are united by pure greed, the guys on bottom are united mostly by being brainwashed to perceive a common enemy.
The guys at the top share class interests. That's what unites them, not ideology. The ones at the top just say whatever needs to be said (whatever will benefit the plutocracy) to get to the top. But they're not united at all. As soon as cracks appear, they turn on each other. I just don't see this unity the OP is talking about. The problem is not that "evil is united". The problem is that it's too easy to propagandize vast amounts of the population when one controls the narrative through wealth and centralized media.
I like to view it as Left vs Right is just People vs Machine.
That's a badass way to view it and I'm here for it π―
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