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Confusing encounter. Did I misunderstand something, or did this person call me a bigot for mentoining China and North Korea have committed atrocities?
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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In interactions with authoritarians, I'm often reminded of Jean-Paul Sartre's description of anti-semites.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Tankies follow the same underlying basis for their justifications of authoritarianism as every other stripe.
woah you kind of ate it up with this comment. huge insight/comparisons here i’d never considered.
I should post this to every tankie that comes with their BS
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Handy that your client shows that it's a 4 days account
Voyager mobile. Yeah it’s a cool feature.
The meme I sent in the original pic
What country is that?
China, North Korea etc
Huh... I'm a bigot!
Im going to throw a hissy fit now.
I'm so sorry. The fruit was right there, hanging low, looking delicious. I just had to do it!
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China, North Korea etc
Thanks for the context that seems reasonable
The better timeline
The longer you live the more you learn all countries are bad in there own right.
Hence me becoming an anarchist ahah
As someone from Switzerland it pisses me off how some people see our country as a utopia. We still have massive inequalities and suffering. People may not be dying on the streets, but they are sure as hell dying preventable deaths behind closed doors.
Gotta imagine how horrifying life is in other countries where they see a greener pasture across every other field but theirs
Yeah.
It’s crazy though because I’ve had times where I’m unable to get enough food to eat. Or afford to pay for rent and therefore been forced into a psych ward because that’s where they throw homeless people. I’ve watched friends die of malnutrition when I couldn’t afford to help.
But to others, that’s a utopia.
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new accounts
As in they're getting banned a lot or they're trolling/sockpuppeting, or both.
on new accounts
you are a bigot because you disagree with me on something random
Pretty much this, and yes, I see it a lot too
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