IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn't learn his lesson and is fired
IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn't learn his lesson and is fired
IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn't learn his lesson and is fired
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no, no one is saying that at all. the world is not as black and white as you are implying. you sound like youre 12 and have zero understanding of the human condition.
can we hold voters accountable for electing a fascist? yep. can we understand how they came to be in that position so we can prevent it? you betcha. the interplay of emotion, intellect and responsibility is not a zero sum game.
except that I am three times that age, having spend at least last twelve years looking exactly at how emotion and intellect work and how to make all this play well
and what I see on lemmy is this: every time someone shows well-deserved anger at idiots who made this terror happen(make no mistake, just because we can sit relatively comfortable and just argue on internet, many people experience their lives getting torn apart), there comes someone with the you-cant-just-blame-them attitude, and all that does it "don't be mad at them, chill"
Well, no. How they came to be this way? Exactly this is how: they. came. to be this way. Same way neither of us did: making choices. Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.
Yeah actually what is up with Lemmy users and shirking personal responsibility? It's really weird!
Hm. Do I sense sarcasm here or am I just being paranoid?
Honestly, I re-read that a few times after posting it because it really looks sarcastic 😂 I wasn't being sarcastic though, I do agree with you and I've seen it a lot on here -- for some reason, people are eager to jump to excusing people for their own poor, harmful, negative, and cruel choices in favour of blaming something bigger. It's weird.
Yeah, that staggers me to this day. I hate this thought, but it seems to me that most people on the planet will rather do the equilibristics and put their heads way up their own asses than acknowledge a simple fact: "I am here because of the choices I made". Whatever nuances, "good"/"bad" assesments etc - they all come after this basis. But noo, let's pretend that if it were not for <insert here>, things would
behave been betterDa fuck. I am in my thirties and see this, humanity is many thousands years old - can't even figure this out?
Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.
Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place.
If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats on social media then you don't understand what is happening, what the sides are and what is at stake.
You're advocating for fighting the other fools while the con man runs away with both of your money.
Ah, now comes the best part: assuming what I did not say and answering that. Because what can someone with silly 12-year-old worldview know, right?
And now more to the point
Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place
Spoilers: one can say that ignorance is main source of all trouble, but that gets us nowhere right now. We got here by not making people capable of handling life in all its depth. Without people who are developed and balanced no amount of fancy laws, traditions and whatnot will keep things from progressing in ugly directions
If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats
And what if I do not think that? Part of reason being that even if today I drop dead all those filthy-ignorant-idiots (and I am so bright and righteous, of course. Sarcasm, obviously), tomorrow same idiotic things will be done by other people
You’re advocating for fighting the other fools
Short answer of a tired man: please, quote me doing so.
Longer answer of someone still caring about at least something: I am advocating against "oh, poor things, they got brainwashed/caught in information bubbles/whatever, things are more complicated blah-blah". Things are complicated well beyond anyone's imagination (I am talking in general here. try finding someone who understands a blade of grass totally, on all levels and in all transactions it is being a part of). First things first: fix the damn thing. Again - no, I am not saying "You, people I have never met, go against armed men and die because I say you should". I am saying "do what best you can, leave all this things-are-complicated horseshit. It never ends"