ID: Xtremely Transbian, Online @ThisACoolPerson posted:

“i imagine being a liberal is much like having a cat on your lap, in that you have a comforting distraction from misery and can’t stand up for anything”

E: before people derail the conversation to offer me the fallen arm from the title - I’ve tried many different combinations, and they all result in a wrong looking shruggy face. Deal with it lol

  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    9 days ago

    Those ideals are lovely. Very few people would argue against any of that as an end goal. The problem is the transition. Most people (myself included) just don’t have enough faith in people to believe that it will happen peacefully. It will require violence. And even people who hardly know anything about history know that civil war is not something they want to have happen to themselves or their children. And so the bread and circuses still work, just as they always have.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      56·
      9 days ago

      Lmfao, all you’re doing here is continuing to prove the point op is making

      The liberal wants their individual privilege and comfort maintained! At whose and what cost is completely irrelevant.

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        9 days ago

        No. The problem I have is the label “the liberal”. Not wanting to die in a civil war isn’t exactly a unique political position. There are people of every single political persuasion who aren’t going to be willing to die, or have their children die. That’s just part of being a living being.