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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

So there’s no such thing as a despotic tyrant in your mind?

Of course not. It’s a very effective pejorative. Really good at polarizing people into camps. Because, if you still say you like the guy, then you’re enabling tyranny. And that justifies hating the defenders of the government just as much as hating the government itself. If you start off saying you agree, then its straight on to “Well then you must be glad we flattened that guy’s house and killed as many of his friends and family as possible.”

Once you tar someone with the label, you’ve justified their execution.

Pinning down what you’re about is exhausting given you love to play insincere.

I’m just tired of hearing people regurgitate ultra-nationalist propaganda. The reflexive need to point to Bad Country and dogmatically recite the prayer “At least we’re not in Bad Country”. Then to justify any horror inflicted abroad, by mouthing the apologia “At least we killed the Bad People. Now we’ll be greeted as liberators.”

Literally nobody the US can kill that some fascist fucks on here can’t massage their brains into justifying.

That or I can just block you.

I know you are here to block me. Block, coward, you are only going to block a man.

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HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

Of course not. It’s a very effective pejorative. Really good at polarizing people into camps. Because, if you still say you like the guy, then you’re enabling tyranny. And that justifies hating the defenders of the government just as much as hating the government itself. If you start off saying you agree, then its straight on to “Well then you must be glad we flattened that guy’s house and killed as many of his friends and family as possible.”

So what would you call a head of state who happily and repeatedly conducts crimes against humanity and oppresses people?

I’m just tired of hearing people regurgitate ultra-nationalist propaganda.

Which what I said very obviously isn’t.

The reflexive need to point to Bad Country and dogmatically recite the prayer “At least we’re not in Bad Country”. Then to justify any horror inflicted abroad, by mouthing the apologia “At least we killed the Bad People. Now we’ll be greeted as liberators.”

Which I didn’t do.

I know you are here to block me. Block, coward, you are only going to block a man.

Blocking people who argue in bad faith is cathartic and productive in the sense that I can divert my time towards reading things written by people discussing things in good faith instead; it’s an opportunity cost thing.

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