• masquenox@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            If you truly wish to treat Trump, the system that created him and the system that protects him like some aberration of your (supposedly) “perfect” and “infallible” liberal pseudo-democratic system little ole’ me certainly won’t be stopping you - but only one of us will be surprised at what is coming.

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              your (supposedly) “perfect” and “infallible” liberal pseudo-democratic system

              Said no one ever. No one believes this. Some of us just believe more fact-based things than the ever-popular emotional plea from the accelerationists: “the whole thing is bad, you have to destroy it completely for any meaningful progress to happen”

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                Said no one ever.

                Oh, you don’t have to - it is perfectly obvious that you and the rest of the liberal hive mind that is rapidly gentrifying Lemmy believe liberalism is (supposedly) “perfect.” That is the very reason you see people like Trump and the systemic violence he represents as an aberration and not a predictable product of this very system.

                There’s a saying amongst leftists (actual leftists - not the co-opting shitlibs self-applying that label on here), “scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.” Or, as Malcolm X put it…

                “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.”

                MLK noted it, too, in his “Letters From A Birmingham Jail” - there’s nothing new about having a proper understanding of what liberalism really is.

                It’s just new to you.

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                  This is just stupid. Ya know, pretending people believe stuff doesn’t will it into existence. And even if it did, all you’d be accomplishing here is feeling superior.

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                    This is just stupid.

                    I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you… after all, if I am wrong (and, of course, I must be) all you have to do is “vote harder” and all those “aberrations” will magically disappear as soon as you vote another smiley face “good cop” into the Waffle House.

                    Is that not so?