Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.
People stop hearing the things that you actually want to say because the name calling bears more weight.
Yeah those people are never going to listen anyways. Really, namecalling bears more weight than the entirety of an argument, than the reality of the situation? If not namecalling, they’ll make up something, or just admit they never cared.
And while I think that “liberal” should be an insult in 2025, it unfortunately is not.
Did you actually stop reading at the word “liberal”? Because the actual argument I made was, with only a little bit of sass, that even from a liberal perspective, based on the values that liberals claim to uphold, the far right should be evaluated to be much worse than the far left. And then I remarked that this is not how liberals think because most liberals are two-faced (even if unintentionally so!).
And while there’s a small chance you’re not a liberal…well, you’re walking like a liberal, quacking like a liberal, posting and commenting like a liberal… and we’re on .world, so there’s gonna be lots of liberals here anyways.
Based, keep up the good work 👍
Ah yes fellow liberal, this is our classic dilemma: do I support people who want to destroy the planet, create an ethnostate, take away all my personal liberties, and kill me and all my friends and family and colleagues, or do I support people who are more zealous than I am about changing society in the direction of the values I loudly claim to hold? /s
(It’s not actually a dilemma because liberals always pick the far right.)
I am incapable of the kind of black and white thinking that would allow me to believe that literally ACAB
Well…ACAB is not just an assessment of all officers’ individual characters [1]. It’s an assessment of their role in society. Even a polite, protocol abiding, perfectly gentle cop is, on their best day, a member of the enforcement arm of the State, i.e. they are part of the organization that imposes the will of the capitalist class on the rest of the community every single day. Anything else that individual cops or individual police departments do is subordinate to the designated goal of enforcing the will of the capitalist class. In almost all cases where police departments attempt to do things beyond their primary function
I.e., literally all cops are the enemies of the community by design, regardless of the internal character of an individual officer or department. ACAB communicates this sentiment as well as you can do in 4 letters, i.e. something that can be graffitied in a pinch.
[1] To be clear, like 99.99% of all cops are still shitty people, even if the “cop” portion of their life is assumed to be separable and then ignored. And like you, I really don’t like black and white thinking, so the leftover 0.01% does not represent any cop I have ever personally met or read about; I’m only leaving open the theoretical possibility that there exists a person who would otherwise be a good person if they were not a cop. This observation is almost a corollary of the main point of ACAB, and then plug in the statistics about officers beating their partners and history of police brutality, violating their own protocols, enforcing heinous laws, etc…
Trump disrespected those troops by being there.
Yeah he gave them exactly what they deserved 🖕
A ringing endorsement for more protests
Unironically the only thing I could ever recommend any American do out of high school anymore is find your comrades and fight the fucking empire in the streets. Work doesn’t pay, school doesn’t lead to work that pays, trades destroy your body. At least if you find comrades to do stuff with, you can support each other and take advantage of numbers.
Anything else at this point requires you to agree to get fractally scammed, fucked over, used, and abused by capitalists at every part of the transaction.
Hey while you’re deleting stuff can you delete my student loans?
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Yeah I thought not.
Yeah but we’re not at a train station. Particularly, we are communicating through text, where you can skim the entire body of the text. Maybe the upcoming text justifies why the author sees me as a racist piece of shit. Maybe I have a blind spot! Or, maybe the author is just a jackass. But now I want to find out.
But like also I think you’re missing the forest for the trees? The point was not to say “you’re a liberal and you should feel bad about it”, it was to critique the point you started with. Namely, the “forest” is that the far right is not morally or materially equivalent to the far right, and to claim otherwise ignores history and the current reality. And I only used the “fellow liberal” framing because liberalism is the default ideology in the Western world, and because it is usually liberals who make points like this. Strike out any usages of the word “liberal” if you really can’t look past this point.
I mean we’re on Lemmy.world so I don’t know about that 😆. Lot of liberals around here.