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    Paying him empathy is a slap in the face to all of his victims.

    You wouldn’t do this shit for anyone else that murders children. I 100% guarantee you that this man has killed hundreds of children in his lifetime.

    The issue you libs have is that you believe that the institutional murder that these fucks perform is magically different to murder that isn’t institutional. It allows you to look the other way when they perform horrors that are unspeakably more evil, and then to performatively pretend you’re on some moral high ground for being nice to someone far far far worse than any person that has directly murdered with their hands. You’re not on moral high ground for it, all it does is highlight the incredible lack of principles that liberals have, that institutions and performing in the ritual acts of the civic religion are more meaningful to you than the actual pain, suffering and death they’ve reaped upon people.

    It’s one of many reasons so many people continue to stop calling themselves liberals and start calling themselves socialists, anarchists, communists, or some other variant of real leftist.

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      Well liberal means you’re pro-liberty. Which is a virtue that is up there with freedom and justice, so I don’t see liberals going anywhere soon.

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        That is not what liberal means. It’s an ideology from the enlightenment based on the emancipation of the individual as being key to the emancipation of society. It has completely failed.

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          You just described liberty?

          relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise

          It definately hasn’t failed. Not yet, as those things defined still exist.

          Not really unsympathetic to the tankies plight, as it is my own, but I think some of you guys are smoking a special kind of Kool aid.

          Communism isn’t a magical fix for all our problems. Sure more of those ideas should be implemented into our system, universal Healthcare, a more centralized means of production, wealth caps, term limits, etcetera. All great ideas. The only way they’ll happen is with a more unified country. Or war. A long and terrible one that will completely destroy us. Now I know the idea sounds romantic, but I promise you it’s not. You’re better off coming to the table with your head on straight.

          Edit: But fuck mconnel. I hope he gets Ebola and shits out his own insides

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            individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise

            Where do these things exist? They don’t exist much in the USA for example.

            Communism isn’t a magical fix for all our problems

            Its aim is to fix these problems, capitalism’s aim is to make money for a small group of people using liberalism to trick them into helping.

            The only way they’ll happen is with a more unified country. Or war. A long and terrible one that will completely destroy us.

            The political class are united, they have the country’s workers fighting over niche issues like gay rights etc while they kill millions around the globe and do whatever it takes to maintain the privilege of a few.

            Agreed about Mc Connell.

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              Where do these things exist? They don’t exist much in the USA for example

              I’m sorry what? Freedom of speech? Civil rights act? Freedom of assembly? The right to bare arms? Etcetera?

              Its aim is to fix these problems,

              How? Through violent revolution with a benevolent authoritarian leader? Seize the means and then humans just stop being corruptible shitheads? Okay buddy

              capitalism’s aim is to make money for a small group of people

              Capitalism doesn’t have an aim. Like communism it will do what you direct it to do. If you’re going to try to revolutionize you might as well fix the system you already have instead of going to war.

              using liberalism to trick them into helping

              Yeah see this is that kool-aid bullshit you guys must have been smoking in the LateStageCapitalism ban chamber all those years. Liberals OPPOSE these same assholes they are not your enemy you dumb fuck