• Grapho@lemmy.ml
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    Both of them want to kill you and your friends. One is just stupid/racist enough that they’re willing to do away with your labor power ASAP while the other would rather let their billionaire masters squeeze every penny out of you in debt peonage for the rest of your life (hopefully less than 65 years).

    However, I’m far less interested in what they want to do to other gringos than the fact that they’ve been workshopping even worse than this brutality on the rest of us for centuries and y’all were okay with it. You’d continue to be okay with it if there wasn’t a dang Cheeto in the white house or whatever the fuck.

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      Let me rephrase: one of them is willing to let me and my friends die because they’re more interested in making money than providing for our needs, and one of them wants to shoot us in the fucking heads for being queer. But yeah the ones who hate us for being queer aren’t actually worse than the ones who simply don’t care about us

      They also want to shoot you in the head for not being white. But yeah, no worse than the ones who simply don’t care about your wellbeing. In fact, the latter deserves even more of your ire, for some reason

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        me and my friends die

        “Sure, they may be committing a modern Holocaust, but what about MEEEEEEE”

        Western liberals are the most self centred people alive, you literally don’t see foreigners as real people.

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          Meeeeee, and also all of the other non-cishets, non-whites, and non-men

          You’re right though, western liberals are the worst. I’m going to take your advice and become a western conservative, and will be doing my best to actively hurt people, because you think it’s better when American women and gays and nonwhites die than when they don’t

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            all of the other

            Once again, we are reminded that western liberals literally don’t conceptualise foreigners as real people.

            I’m going to take your advice and become a western conservative

            By all means, the difference is entirely performative; conservatives are just more honest about it.

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        Nice ahistorical analogy, but the democrats have proven very capable of literally killing people abroad for the crime of being brown and desiring autonomy, as well as turning a blind eye when cops and the national security apparatus murder people on a whim at home. So forgive me for not seeing them as polar opposites.

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        One willing to do the bad thing while the other not willing to do anything about it (and resistant towards any change) is just voting between the Uvalde school shooter and the uvalde cops that prevented parents from going in and saving their children.