To be clear, I am only talking about people like the average working class Trump voter. The ones who just got caught by misinformation, and just haven’t been able to find a way out. Trump and all his mates are terrible people, and should be held accountable.

The average voter is another thing. My attitude is that I got lucky, and found out that Trump and his mates are terrible, instead of getting sucked down a rabbit hole of supporting them. Knowing how fascism works, I don’t know if I’d be able to reliably land on the right side if fascism happened in my home country. And if I don’t believe I could reliably spot fascism, I’m not comfortable acting like those who support Trump could have.

This isn’t a discussion of “just be a good person”. I know plenty of amazing, caring people who believe they’re doing the right thing.

This whole idea of “I can’t say is reliably avoid fascism” is based on this, the school that became fascist for a week. As bad of an experiment that was from that teacher, it was an effective way of teaching how people fall for what should be obviously a bad thing.

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    You’ll find plenty of comments where I acknowledge that Biden and Harris were bad on this issue, so please, don’t put words into my mouth. My position has been the same. Biden/Harris bad on this issue, Trump worse.

    Objectively incorrect

    Maybe in a few months or years you’ll have a better grasp of cause and effect. Those lives aren’t pawns to me, they are pawns to Trump. You’ve seen his opener so far.

    His opener of securing a ceasefire, something that has upset you so much you’re know constantly fantasizing about how hes totally going to do an even bigger genocide in the future, and getting big bad when people remind you that you can’t actually see the future.

    I already showed you how meaningless his action was - Israel is just killing the same folks but in a different area now. And I guarantee you it’s only the beginning.

    My god, you really have become so deranged you actually believe you have the ability to see the future. And no, Isreal is not killing nearly as many people, so it’s not meaningless, or it wouldn’t be if you actually cared about the lives of foreigners, but you don’t.

    You’re wrong, but it’s a great way to avoid processing any of my words if you insist that’s the case.

    Processing your words is how I determined that you don’t consider us human

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      3 hours ago

      Processing your words is how I determined that you don’t consider us human

      Well, goodbye now, and good luck. You can reply if you like, but I won’t see it.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Objectively incorrect

      [citation needed]

      And no, Isreal is not killing nearly as many people,

      so far

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        [citation needed]

        Lol. Blue MAGA everyone. Biden spending fifteen months perpetrating a mass genocide isn’t as bad as Trump securing a ceasefire. Another reminder that you don’t consider us human.

        so far

        Oh right, I forgot you suffer under the delusion of having oracle like powers.