• esc@piefed.social
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    vor 3 Tagen

    Yeah, I want a better world, don’t project your pathetic bullshit on me.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Maybe you do. So do I. OOP used “you” for “I”, assuming we’re all like them. They are the ones who don’t want a better world, they want the lie.

      • SaltyAmerican@lemmy.worldOP
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        Liberals are the ones that want the lie, they want comforting lies that don’t threaten the privileges the status quo affords them.

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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        That’s funny, I read this as if it were part of a conversation where the other person was making excuses for the do-nothing political party of their region.

  • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Nietzsche wrote about it, but I think a term from the SCP Foundation sums it up nicely: some information about our world poses a memetic hazard. If you see the world clearly enough you are forever changed, and not in a good way. Knowledge is not power, it’s a burden you can’t put down that no one can help you with.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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      Nicely said. In practice just let your mind slip around it. Until such time as we start to actively fight the evil that is Advertising.

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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    I mean if you want to give into the abyss and burn the world down around you for shits and giggles, how are you any better than the liars and their useful idiots.