• improve7elephants@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    I like to look at it this way: There are not many bad people but weak people who fall for propaganda. The real bad people are just a few but those are the ones manipulating the weak.

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      3 hours ago

      Too weak to have any morals? I doubt it. They are just given permission to let their inner racism out.

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        35 minutes ago

        That’s too easy and excuses us from the work needed to rescue these people, content in our own moral superiority.

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      3 hours ago

      I know a lot of people who are pissed off and struggling yet don’t blame minorities for their troubles while actively voting against their best interests at every possible turn. I also know people who, even if it took some time, realized that conservatism is actually fucking awful. I even know some conservatives who are just really stupid or bad at economic policy but who are genuinely good people(so long as he can see you or even just hear that you’re a friend of someone he knows my dad will give you his shirt, and he doesn’t have ill-intentions towards minorities, for example).

      Trump people are just fucking terrible. Their entire “ideology” is so rooted in being terrible that even if they were just weak morons sweat away by the propaganda I still cannot fathom how they weren’t tipped off by any of the thousands of moments which gave them the opportunity to reflect.

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        4 hours ago

        Tetraethyl Lead has a lot to answer for, but yes, a lot of people are just selfish arseholes.