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The problem isn’t that the bad guys are the bad guys, it’s that the good guys are the bad guys too.
@aral they made us think there are good guys in the first place, then that the good guys are they
@aral You’re making me cry.
@aral It all depends on definitions. If you postulate that "greed is good" then you know who the good guys are and you can then ask if the poor, who squander every opportunity to satisfy their greed deserve anything.
@Outpatientzero Alt text: Photo (looks historic) of woman with pale skin and black hair smoking a cigarette while staring intently off camera.
Quote:
When out of fear you twist the lesser
evil into the lie that it is something
good, you eventually rob people of
the capacity to differentiate between
good and evil.
– Hannah Arendt
@aral thanks for adding this and for the reminder. Need to figure out how to do that on the original image.
@Outpatientzero No worries :)
(To add it to the image in your post using the Mastodon web interface: … (ellipsis menu on post) > edit then use the edit button on the image and paste the text into the description box and save your post.)
@Outpatientzero @aral yep, I'll vote Harris, and I'll celebrate when Trump loses, but pretending she is a good candidate representing good policy, or that her winning means we have a healthy democracy, nope.
@aeischeid not to mention that there's zero chance Trump will listen to reason, even accidentally. Harris might. Even if it's a tiny chance, it's non-zero. @Outpatientzero @aral
@xinit @aeischeid @Outpatientzero @aral yeah...I'm treating this kinda like Obama's first term, y'all got 4 years to show us something otherwise its on to indies and 3rd parties...again.
@johnglass @xinit @aeischeid @Outpatientzero @aral hey look it's working
@aeischeid @Outpatientzero @aral it means we aren't sliding further into the volcano...but let's get back out of the caldera and down the slopes a ways before we think about celebrating, yeah?
@thelaughingmuse @aeischeid @aral every second that the climate catastrophe continues, that the genocide in Gaza continues, that the dominance of the billionaire class continues, that American world imperialism continues, is continuing down into the volcano.
People should not be fooling themselves: both of America's governing parties are part of the oligarchy, committing evil, just at slightly different speeds and to slightly different extents.
False equivalence doesn’t help anyone
The fascist elite have effectively won when we have otherwise decent members of the American public out there enthusiastically cheerleading a Democratic candidate who is fully committed to continuing the Gaza genocide. These people will be relieved when Harris hopefully wins, and rightly so, but what kind of victory will it be?
@Shivviness Which begs the question: were they ever truly “otherwise decent?” Funny thing about decency, it usually extends to opposing genocide.
