Think of it like a video game HUD where there’s just text floating above a person’s head where you see all their political beliefs, including the degree of bigotry (if any), or whether or not the person believes in the use of violence to acheive polical goals, basically every little detail that would accurately depict people’s political beliefs. Your beliefs are also visible to others. This effect has 1KM radius, including people above and below you.
So, how fucked are you?
(Think of all the authorities in your area that can see your beliefs, including the beliefs regarding the recent incident…)
Why does everybody think that so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics?
Also why would they come for you if you are progessive and leftist? I think, here in Greece at least, it’s far more likely people to be against you if you are a fascist. And I dont think Greece is much of a progressive country.🤷
And besides all that, I think it’s kinda easy to get a rough idea of people’s beliefs anyways.
Because most people on Lemmy secretly (or not secretly) wish they could murder everyone who doesn’t share their politics and are projecting this on other people.
I was sitting in the break room where I used to work and three supervisors were talking about the gun one is them had just bought and was going through the waiting period to pick it up. One of the said he should go into Chicago and shoot liberals with it and they all agreed about it adding to what he should do etc. These are fairly average people too. This was years ago, things have only gotten worse.
Because some of us have lived in places in the US where that’s pretty much been said and demonstrated before.
If you don’t feel that way, consider yourself lucky to have never lived in extremely intolerant areas of the states that use violence against people who think, look, or behave differently.
Because a lot of people live in countries where “so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics”.