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  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?
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    1 month ago

    This comment really sums up the issue here. Notice how this user makes wild assumptions about OP. YOU vehemently defend Israel and genocide. Nowhere in this post is that said or implied. In fact the opposite is what’s implied. It’s like they’re setting up some kind of man made of straw to point a finger at but that man doesn’t really exist.

    The .ml crowd, including the user I’m responding to, don’t care about anything other than feeling smug. They’ve found a moral issue and then put the entire world into one of two categories. 1. The in-group that spends all their time trolling on the Internet and creating straw men of everyone who seems even slightly less zealous than required on a single issue, and 2. the rest of humanity who are characterized as demons with no morals whose lives completely revolve around supporting the IDF. There is no one in between these two groups for them.

    They are the same as the religious groups at abortion clinics who pat themselves on the backs for calling a bunch of people they don’t know murderers. Murder is bad so I’m right and I’m better than you. Well yes, murder is bad but you’re completely ignoring the fact that abortion is not murder and it’s far more nuanced than that. Their conclusion is that you either think abortion is murder, or you are the enemy.

    Genocide is bad, which means I’m better than you because even though you also think genocide is bad you happen to have a slightly different opinion than me on how to stop genocide. Since your opposition to genocide is a little different than mine “you vehemently defend Israel and their genocide of the Palestinians”. God damn my farts smell good. You either think that voting for an imperfect candidate to stop a fascist one is identical to being a full throated supporter of the IDF, or you are the enemy.

    This isn’t about genocide. It’s about tribalism and getting to feel that they’re better than others with absolutely no effort. If they cared about Palestinians they’d actually do something about it. Instead they spend all their energy dividing people into groups.

    Next time you pass a stranger on the street make sure to let them know that they’re evil because someone in the county they live in is on the sex offender list and that means that they fully support pedophilia. This is the same as the accusations that are constantly thrown around by the white knight above and the most outspoken .ml users.

  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can I join the resistance ?
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    10 months ago

    The large majority of the posts in this instance do not support what you just said. The GOP is objectively much worse by every metric on all of the stances that are touted on .ml and yet almost all of the hate here is directed at the Democratic party. At best the values here are extremely hypocritical and at worst it’s straight up gaslighting in order to prop up the GOP in order to advance foreign interests.

    The Democrats have not done a good job but the difference between the parties is staggering and the objective of the rhetoric in this instance is obvious.