• odium@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    How is the idea that two evils can fight each other so hard to understand? Not all fights are between a good and a evil.

    • RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Seriously. There are also people on Lemmy that think anyone who has sympathy for civilians also support terrorists.

      How absolutely fucking brain-dead do you have to be to not understand that killing civilians is wrong? You can hate the rulers of Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah while simultaneously hoping that Israeli, Palestinian, and Lebanese civilians don’t get hurt.

      This isn’t rocket science.

    • Fox@pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t help that they have the emotional maturity of toddlers

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      Yeah and they also forget that something evil can have elements or components that arent evil. You wont kill every employee of a company because the ceo is evil. You wont kill every palestanian or israeli because the IDF and hamas are terrorist organizations.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      Reality is a team sport, to some people. The conservative worldview is defined by interpersonal loyalty. There is some rightful order to things, and it’s your job to justify and promote that, by stringing together argument-shaped sentences. They think that’s all anyone’s doing.

      And yes, I would call tankies conservatives. The word doesn’t refer to right-wing policies. It means “well somebody’s gotta be king.” They use leftist language, and absorb some leftist motivation, but any of it and all of it will go out the window for the social game of maintaining loyalty.

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      2 months ago

      I think it is difficult for children to understand nuance like that. Aren’t cartoons always very obvious about who is in the right?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      Your statement is akin to saying the Allies in WW2 were no heroes. In fact they were also the bad guys because they were racist and homophobic. Thus WW2 was a “complex and nuanced” issue.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      It is fights between arbitrary stance with no factual evidence and arbitrary stance with no factual evidence.

      Actually it sounds a lot like a holly war