• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “bUt ThE wEsT” yeah, all imperialism and genocide is bad? The flag color doesn’t matter.

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      10 days ago

      Really is the Epstein files “but Bill Clinton” argument. Authoritarians really have a hard time understanding a principled position… Yes, bad too, hit the button.

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      10 days ago

      Whoah, whoah, whoah.

      Let’s keep things on a tankie-friendly level and use our small words. They’re not ready for concepts like, “Assessing everything and everyone without bias and forming an original opinion based on perception and knowledge of all information currently available.”

      We gotta ease them into the whole concept of, “Borrow someone’s ideas, but not all of them.” If an ideology is right 50% of the time, that’s an extremely high success rate. So only the simplest of us 100% commit themselves to an ideology; wrong bits and all.

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      10 days ago

      “bUt ThE wEsT”

      No, fuck off, tankie. If you mean the US, then say the US or whatever country you’re railing against. I don’t say “BuT tHe EaSt” when I mean to say “fuck Russia”.