• Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      yeah like can you describe something to me without defining what it isn’t?

      it’s yellow. Okay what is yellow? a mixture of two other colors? what are they? define them.

      what is night?

      so you can’t do it. and that’s why you’re not going to hell. because you can’t have suffering without joy.

      thanks for attending my seminar.

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        10 months ago

        Uhh hey man hope you’re enjoying a really great high cause it sounds like it!

        That’s definitely not the train of thought I was going with though. More like we can’t even agree if police brutality is a problem, if the election was stolen/Jan 6 was an insurrection, are democrats consuming baby blood.

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          10 months ago

          do you think if we could agree on those issues it would change our material condition? or do you think maybe the conflict between people who should be united as workers is the point and it doesn’t matter how many issues you “solve” they’ll just keep coming?

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            10 months ago

            I think if we could agree on those issues our country and democracy wouldn’t be at risk of a fascist takeover and civil war. I doubt we would get that far in any living lifetime. Perhaps whatever this current gen being born might get there if we make enough leadway

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              10 months ago

              I know it’s hard to believe but every election of the last 30 years has been the “most important election of our lifetime”.

              Chronically online people have moved the goalposts of language so everything is now an existential threat.

              What happens when you put up too many signs at work? Suddenly none of them are important.

              You should vote, but if you want to use language like “civil war” you’re gonna get the future you imagine.