It's amazing how some of the most controversial topics are basically just "let's try being nice to people"
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Left wing ideology in a nutshell
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“one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change"
"Why are they nailing him to that cross? What did he do?"
"He said... 'Be kind to one another'."
(Sighs) "...Yeeaah, that'll do it."
It's the "forcing people to be what we consider nice" part that's usually the issue.
Oh you're so right, those poor people being forced to not be intentionally mean to lgbtq people, women, immigrants, etc. It's so obvious when you think about it, all the transphobes, misogynists, homophobes, and racists are just being nice from their perspective. They must just come from a culture where having less rights because of your gender or who you're attracted to or where you were born is a sign of respect. We've all been so wrong to suppress them from expressing their love for others in their own unique way. I know I for one will make sure to thank the next person I see being mean to someone now that I understand the true meaning.
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It always reminds me of the Bill Burr interview:
The news anchor is going, "Bill, aren't you being a little hard on those people?" In reference to something like clergymen raping boys.
And Bill is like, "How do you think those boys feel?"
This might be not the right place to ask, but is there a theory or phenomenon that explains why so many people side with the perpetrators/people in power when abuses are being commented on?
Sympathizing with the clergyman in your example, or another pop culture example I've seen recently is defending private jet usage.
The easy answer is "brainworms", but there must be more to it than that, surely?
I think it's people not feeling comfortable taking an active position. Condemning child rapists is still taking an active position even if it's a no brainer. Some people just see someone being condemned or criticised and instinctively defend the target. I'm not sure if it stems from contrarianism or empathy.
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"Modern developed countries should not have homeless people."
"Having a job is not a social obligation."
"Having a job is not a social obligation."
“What do you do?” is the first question asked when meeting someone new.
I start with my hobbies and only mention my job if they ask directly.
I noticed a gap in your resume. Why don’t you have an address? Do you have reliable transportation?
Try getting married without a job? Try getting a home, a car, a bank loan without a job? Our whole society runs on jobs.
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Contributing something to society is a social obligation, otherwise you’re riding everyone else’s labor for free.
Yeah, like those lazy housewives and people with disabilities that keep them from working are just freeloaders!
Don't get me started on children, they are the worst!
I agree. Landlords and CEOs are parasites riding everyone else’s labor for free.
Yes
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Calm down, edgelord.
Right wingers think this is an insanely dangerous idea. In my youth someone bought me a copy of Atlas Shrugged after hearing me say things like that.
I realized that they were trying to indoctrinate me, but I was confident in my own judgement and wanted to know my enemy better. Even if I would've been susceptible to the brainwashing, that book was insanely long and insanely boring, so they chose poorly. I couldn't get through even half of it
Wow what an antisemitic bitch /s
Dropped your /s (I hope)
Yeah I didn't think it would be necessary but looks like I should add it 🤣
PLEASE STOP KILLING ~~PEOPLE~~
Yeah, go vegan!
By killing every single living being looking for food that gets remotely close to a farm. All just so that vegans can be malnourished and have to rely on basically drugs in order to live.
Congratulations, you are wearing the suit in the meme.
Our survival relies on death, even if it's just plants. The people gate is an important one, even if you want to expand it wider.
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Also vegans with the stop killing animals sign
Then their signs should read: Stop Breeding Animals.
Vegans are ultimately advocating for the extinction of farm animals.
There are a lot of animals that only exist because they are tasty or useful in some other way. Their species would never survive in the specks of wilderness we have left.
If you can't finding it naturally roaming Yellowstone or some other national park, it's reasonable safe to assume that species wouldn't exist if we didn't farm them.
I lost braincells reading this.
It's not like they would actually go extinct entirely, they would just evolve in a different direction and have much smaller populations. There are wild bovines, turkeys, swines, etc. If chickens were cut loose to live in the wild, they could probably do alright for themselves, but you might see other traits favored than maximum egg-laying capacity or rapid growth that only serves to maximize farmer profit by reducing the time to be able to sell them off, for example. Local populations would likely collapse until they reached a more stable level, too, given they would have more limited food available, absent someone constantly feeding them.
Expecting them to evolve isn't realistic. Evolution isn't magic; it takes many generations. These aren't fruit flies.
Most farm animals are invasive species and it would be highly irresponsible to cut them loose.
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Forgive me but I about to apply this political cartoon to the situation with Palestine and Joe Biden.
Forgoing the political defeat of Trump to send a message is extreme.
The same message that has fallen on deaf ears for the past 80+ yesrs.
Refusing to listen to voters you depend on in order to get elected is extreme. And before you say "Biden would lose the election if he cut off weapons to Israel!!" then those people who would refuse to vote for him are the ones who you should be shaming. Not only are they willing to forgo the political defeat of Trump to send a message they're doing it because they want to keep supporting genocide.
At some point some amount of blame needs to be leveled at the so called "moderate voters" of the party. They are the majority after all.
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