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or outright cowards too afraid to have a stance on anything for fear of being wrong or unliked
Huh. Now moderates are literally Nazis.
It's best to be an Epicurean and stay away from politics. It's just miserable. People say, "But the ship is going to crash! You don't care?" Sure, but when there's a mob fisting fighting over the controls, the best thing to do is just vibe.
What a pathetic way to look at the world.
"Boy that looks hard, best just let those people die. Doesn't affect me, I guess."
Like I said. Of course I care, but when there’s a mob fisting fighting over the controls, it's not just hard. It's impossible. You guys are going to have to learn how to get along with people. When you do, I'll quit dancing and come look at the wheel and see what I can do.
You just gave to have a dialog with the rabid pack of dogs gnawing on your legs!! Stop hitting it and talk to it!
Seriously, do you expect us to compromise with just a little genocide, as a treat? If you want the fist fight over the controls to end, and you have any preference one way or the other, then get involved. Start throwing punches.
If you don't do that, you don't care. You're content to sit back in your privilege and let the chips fall where they may, safe in your knowledge that as a cis straight white male (I can only assume from the disdain dripping off your post about anyone trying to change things for the better), you will be unaffected by the goings on.
I don't have disdain for anyone trying to change things for the better. I have an aversion to people throwing punches.
Great so you can understand that the people throwing punches are the ones TRYING TO DO A GENOCIDE THE WORLD OVER. if you think you can talk your way out of that, you're just dumb.
I genuinely don't believe you actually care like you say you do. It is incongruent with you decision to let the cards fall where they may.
You're shouting and flaming me now. This is what politics does to your brain. It's driving you batty. You'll feel a lot better if you get away from it. Come. Get on the dance floor.
You're the second person I've seen who agrees with Ghandi that the Jews should have just committed suicide during the Holocaust.
You’re the 3,282nd person I’ve seen on the Fediverse openly promoting political violence and armed revolution for all to see on the Internet. I’m sure the judges will love hearing these speeches when you guys are arrested.
For that response to have made sense I would have had to say some dumb absolute statement about the validity of violence and nonviolence, but I didnt.
Then what I replied to was even more bizarre and cryptic than I gave it credit for. What the hell does it mean?
No, it follows pretty clearly from your statement.
You're being cute but I'm telling you, the FBI team monitoring your accounts across the Internet see straight through it. You're encouraging people to forsake Gandhi's non-violent methods and start getting violent.
Quote where I made any statement that supports your claim that I think only violent methods are valid.
"Mob" is such a classic term for elitist simpletons who wrinkle their noses at a population fighting for democracy.
You sound like someone who's not first in line to be killed
Funny how no one made any specific statements about policies or support for political parties, yet you still decided that "the centre" is "moderate".
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