• FlashMobOfOne
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    15424 days ago

    Man, I hate identity politics. It really has been an extremely useful tool to get the wealthy to divide us so that we won’t care about our own deliberate impoverishment.

    At the same time, whenever someone is mean to my trans homies I want to punch them in the throat.

    • Rose Thorne
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      8224 days ago

      I’ve grown fond of “Don’t give a fuck if you don’t like me, we have to exist on this marble together, so how about we work to make it better”.

      We’re all in the shit together, but if they wanna make it smell worse, they deserve the punch.

      • @acosmichippo
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        4224 days ago

        they love to fly the “don’t tread on me” flags but haven’t figured out that applies to other people too.

        • TTH4P
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          2624 days ago

          Limiting the ability to tread on others IS treading on them! …to them

          • Scrubbles
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            723 days ago

            I legit had this stupid fucking argument with this moron who claimed that they should have the right to be intolerant. No dude, your rights end where your fist hits my face. People claim freedom we aren’t completely free, we live in a society together. We agreed as a society that murder and assault are not allowed, and that could be considered curtailing “freedoms”. These morons though don’t see the nuance and just want to be racist pricks

            • TTH4P
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              523 days ago

              Hear, hear! I mean, that moron has the right to be intolerant, but not to reshape society in their image. And they aren’t free from the social consequences of their personal intolerance.

            • @acosmichippo
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              423 days ago

              The Tolerance Paradox. The one thing a tolerant society cannot tolerate is Intolerance.

              • Scrubbles
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                323 days ago

                you’d be shocked at how many people don’t grasp this

                • @acosmichippo
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                  323 days ago

                  lol not shocked at all, I am painfully aware.

        • @[email protected]
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          1524 days ago

          they love to fly the “don’t tread on me”

          Sir, please be respectful of the flag and use its’ proper name:

          No Step on Snek

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        1724 days ago

        Agreed.

        I just wish we could get people to care as much about the wages they’re being paid as they do about people using slurs.