• @dubious@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      hi. welcome to western civilization. you see, there’s been this struggle going on for some time now between altruism and narcissism, aka conservatism and liberalism, aka leftist vs. right wing, and in the last few decades it’s gotten pretty heated (it’s done this before) and so yeah… the future of civilization is kinda hanging in the balance so maybe it’s time for you to realize that:

      IT’S A WAR. PICK A FUCKING SIDE.

      • @SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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        12 months ago

        Buddy. It might be time to put down the Internet for a while. This shit isn’t new and has been going on as long as civilizations have had a democracy. This isn’t new, this isn’t even kinda old, this shits so staged it’s pretty clear your being propagandized to and you’ve been hooked.

        Give me a fucking break my guy. “iTs A wAr. PiCk A fUcKiNg SiDe.”

    • @DempstersBox@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      The culture war, you know, the one where a lot of folks think it’s great we have things like birth control and public transportation and stuff.

      And then a few other folks that think -basically, boiled down the real truth of it- that everyone that isn’t a white male should be a slave to white males.

      Obviously the best way to fight this is education, which a particular side has been hellbent on destroying, and considering what I was taught in public school, has been pretty effective about it.

      Does it get to their wet dream of wantonly murdering folks in the street like they fantasize about? Well, we lost more people on our side in the 2020 protests than they did.

      Probably something to with believing people are humans, and should be treated with dignity.

      So get some goddamn guns and go to the range. I’d rather have it and not need it, and know how to fucking use it

      Once again, I understand the best way to win is education. My short patience and compassion is entirely spent on people near me, so if you can go around teaching ignorant morons right from wrong please do. They already know. Their in-group lets them get away with it

      • @SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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        12 months ago

        Okay. Noted. I’ll talk to my 70 year old grandma and the gym bro in his 50s that you speak of that are clearly in the mindset to listen to what I have to say about trump being a monster…cause that is how we’re doing it right?

          • @SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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            12 months ago

            I do this all the time. I talk genuinely and calmly about politics with people that are interested. The way you are phrasing things is the same way my 74 year old grand mother who binges fox news all day (as much as a retired woman can) phrases things. This is a media problem. Not a individual people problem.

            • @dubious@lemmy.world
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              12 months ago

              sure. the media probably has made it impossible to get through to people, although they were pretty impossible to get through to in the south long before the rise of fox news, so it’s possible that they were the egg that hatched conservative media. i don’t know and i don’t care how to talk to them at this point. there isn’t time left for diplomatic solutions. they just need to get out of the way and i don’t care how it gets done.