• bonenode@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    I feel thats two different things though. You can be an asshole about European union but still dislike Trumps antics.

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      3 days ago

      “Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?”

      John Cleese on trans people

      (He’s definitely an asshole about more than the EU)

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            We can’t unite against a greater evil because we look to the right and they’re always right of us.

            We look to the right and see the pro-trans crowd as well but making them our enemy while the people further right of them ruin the world won’t work out for either of us.

            That’s what people are talking about by the above. If you were better informed you would have already known that.

            Like cool, we disagree with him but we can disagree with him on those things not on war crimes. If supporting him would stop the war crimes then we could support him until the war crimes stopped though that isn’t relevant in this scenario.

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                Yeah, the left doesn’t have gender differences (outside of biology) so people feeling like they’re a different gender means there’s too much societal power in the label. Take any person say they are xx or xy and then switch it. They’re still the same person.

                However that wasn’t the point, it was about how not being left enough stops us from uniting against the people right of all of us.

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                  That’s not a common opinion among the left. Being pro human rights is definitely not a right leaning view. Sounds like trying to throw trans people under the bus and get buddy buddy with centrists, which is also not a left view.

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                  What do you mean by look to the right then? The left does see the right as bad because of what they do and support. Standing with people on the right, Republicans and conservative Democrats is what keeps dragging us further right. It seems like it’s always the victims responsibility to be the better person and not the aggressors to be better.

                  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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                    You’re not even talking to the right person, now I know you’re too easily confused.

                    Anyway that’s funny but we don’t actually differ in opinion in any way that matters politically. Look, being a good person is always going to mean accepting people who aren’t as good as you.

                    It sucks, and you can still prefer people who are kinder and more well informed, but life isn’t about only tolerating people with perfect opinions. And I say this as someone who excommunicated a best friend of twenty years for falling for 4chan propaganda. It’s all about figuring out who can be reached and who is too far gone.