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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.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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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.
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It doesn't help that they have the emotional maturity of toddlers
Also the intellectual maturity.
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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.
You simply side with the weaker side. Losing is a sign of virtue. /s
That explains why they are fans of Russia as well.
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.
I think it is difficult for children to understand nuance like that. Aren't cartoons always very obvious about who is in the right?
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"America bad therefore all adversaries are good and all adversaries' actions are good."
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I was blocking most lammy.ml communities I encountered. I finally just blocked all the lammy.ml instances. Its mostly trash there and I will find some place else.
For opensource communities (the one topic their communities are usually quite popular)
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That plus hex and lemigrad. It just cleans your feed.
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"Does not make you an hero"
Id hope not
You never know in tankie land. They see Stalin as the great liberator
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