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I swear I used to have political opinions more nuanced than “I hate you, fuck you, just die already.”
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@Leucrotta S A M E
It's almost as though being directly oppressed and having our oppressors try their best to take away what little security we've managed to scrounge up in this world... makes us hostile towards our oppressors!
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@mawr it’s hard not to go all ranty about the prison industrial complex linked to everything else, that at some point there’s just no return for good behavior and people are going to stop bothering with nonviolence, at which point the fucking SS - I mean the police sorry- get off on beating heads, the collaborationist media gets to be all sanctimonious, and the rich assfucks get more slave labor out of the deal...
... and me in 2015 would never talk like this!
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@mawr it’s just so weird working on my issues and having paradigm shifts about “the world is nuanced, I’m actually not a terrible person, and flexibility and compassion are the most pragmatic approaches to the situation” AND being driven deeper into “these are enemies, they will never be anything else, and they can’t understand anything subtler than violence which isn’t practicable, so avoid if possible.”
Lucky I got to do some work on my issues during Obama.
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@Leucrotta In 2015, I was a pacifist who believed that the solution to our political crisis was to make friends with the opposition.
No, seriously. The past few years have changed us _all._