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  • WatDabney@fedia.iotoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Liberals Warned Me About MAGA’s Racism. I Didn’t Believe Them—Until Now.
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    4 days ago

    This is the part that gripes me the most.

    It would of course be best if more people had sufficient empathy to oppose the oppression of others just in and of itself, but I recognize that empathy isn’t sll that common (and has its own drawbacks), so I don’t really expect that.

    But at the very least, anyone should be able to follow the simple chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion that a system that’s empowered to oppress someone, no matter who it is or what the excuse is, is a system that’s empowered to oppress me if it happens to turn its attention my way.

    It’s as if people stand in the middle of a crowd as gunmen walk around, shooting people in the head, and they completely ignore it (or worse yet cheer it on) right up until the moment the gun is pointed at their own heads. And then and only then - far too late - do they think to oppose it.

  • WatDabney@fedia.iotoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government
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    6 days ago

    We could well be heading towards something interesting in the not very distant future.

    I’m not sure if Musk sincerely believes his wealth makes him untouchable or if he’s too self-absorbed to even consider the matter, but it works out to the same thing either way - he’s likely wrong.

    He can get away with a fair bit manipulating an emotionally stunted egomaniac like Trump, but when he starts trying to butt into European politics, he’s going to find himself running up against families that have been pulling political strings for centuries now, and who don’t fancy crude upstarts with nothing more than money going for them, and if he proves to be too much of a problem for them, they’re going to squash him like a bug.