• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Because liberals can only ever critique some symptoms and never the root causes which leads to an inability to address the problems of neoliberalism leads to the rise of space for fascist ideology?

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      3 months ago

      maybe? But tangentially providing space for shitty people doesn’t make you a shitty person. Housing someone who is/was a murder doesn’t just make you a shitty person.

      Politics is quite literally a game of 4d chess unless played from the individuals perspective, in which case its a funny put name on paper and put it into a box game instead.

      I feel like the vast majority of self described liberals would have plenty of issues with violent and fascist-esque institutions running for government positions. I can’t think of any well known liberals that are ambivalent to trump, let alone supportive of him.

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        “Politics is quite literally a game of 4d chess unless played from the individuals perspective, in which case its a funny put name on paper and put it into a box game instead.”

        Why can’t politics be more than voting from an individual’s perspective?

        Also, if you know the person you’re providing a house for is a serial killer and you do nothing… You are a shitty person.

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          Why can’t politics be more than voting from an individual’s perspective?

          unless you’re a politician or a bad faith individual who likes to undermine politics, there is literally nothing else for you to do lmao.

          Outside of that you might be doing shit like canvassing, but that’s nothing more than encouraging people to vote, and if it is, then it’s fraudulent as you’re influencing peoples votes unjustly.

          Also, if you know the person you’re providing a house for is a serial killer and you do nothing… You are a shitty person.

          why though? What if they’ve gotten out of prison? What if it’s also quite literally, not your fucking problem? You’re not encouraging them to kill people. Are we saying that married men who are serial killers should have their wives and families arrested and thrown in jail just for being in proximity to them? What about wayne gacy?

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          3 months ago

          Oh my god this is the ‘Trump is playing 4d chess’ meme but for liberals

          except for the fact that it’s true, global politics is quite literally a game of 4d chess, it is the most delicate and fragile game of jenga ever created, the distance we are from complete and total economic failure at any given moment is much smaller than you would think.