• SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    MAGA separatists, yes. But, not “Americans”. I really wish Canadians and Europeans would quit lumping all of us together in one camp. You’d be surprised at how many of us want to be part of Europe (and have for quite some time).

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        10 days ago

        What would you suggest we do that we aren’t doing? This is a serious question, too. If you’re from the EU or Canada then I’m genuinely curious because its been a common refrain among Canadians and Europeans that we aren’t doing “something” and yet no one wants to expand on what that something is.

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    10 days ago

    I suppose this is the logical outcome of rabid individualism. It wasn’t their kids that were abused, but it’s their bank account getting drained at the gas station.

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      You can’t discount the underlying threads of misogyny throughout maga. Some women made a claim. Who can really believe them. Let’s be real.

      And let’s not forget the coining of the phrase “underage women” either.

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        6 days ago

        True that has to be a factor a well. As it turns out they have no issues applying the misogyny to children too.

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      I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the [Nuremberg] defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

      G. M. Gilbert

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      Not to give excuses for people but it’s also perfectly reasonable to express concern for something that directly affects one’s daily life, rather than before an abstract system of domination.

      Moral evaluation is overridden when one’s purchasing power and thus livelihood is threatened. The Yellow Vests in France started because of a gas price hike, and then transformed into a political movement. The Boston Tea Party into the American Revolution. Police Corruption in Tunisia into the Arab Spring… It always starts with concrete issues and then expands in critic of the system.