TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 month ago

    but it’s not a great triumph of the left wing. It’s a bare minimum.

    You’re shifting goalposts. You said “Yeah. I respect the Republicans for actually getting shit done, as evil as their goals are.” and then claimed democrats don’t get anything done.

    Also here are some things the Democrats did; and I say this as a Canadian:

    • Signing the 19th Amendment into law (for non Americans, this gave women the ability to vote)

    • Social Security

    • Medicaid

    • National Industrial Recovery Act (8 hour work day, min wage, right to collective bargaining, paid overtime)

    • Unemployment Benefits

    • Civil Rights Act

    • Voting Rights Act

    • Fair Labor Standards Act (this was the end of Child Labour)

    • F.E.M.A.

    • Literally creating the Departments of Education, and Energy

    • Family and Medical Leave Act

    • National Voter Registration Act

    And those are just the larger ones I thought of offhand, I’m sure there are more. Yet I’m also pretty sure most americans would agree that things like women voting, social security, medicaid, workers rights, civil rights, voting rights, ending child labour, etc, are pretty important things that were passed into law.

    I guess it’s true what they say, being good is something anyone can do, but being evil requires actually being smart and driven.

    Which sociopath told you this? I’ve never heard that saying in my entire life.

  • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•Nice PeopleEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Sophie Scholl is the ultimate badass, and a quote of hers motivates me to more and more political action. The ovaries on this woman, the guts, just before she is killed at twenty-one.

    “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

    -Sophie Scholl, 22 February, 1942.

  • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?English
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    5 months ago

    This video is actually shockingly relevant right now, and does go through (some of) the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’.

    Remember that tradwife/incel/etc shit is all just fascism boiled down into specifics. The Nazi’s sent women who wouldn’t marry to camps just as easily as Jewish people, gypsies, etc. We think of the Fascist movement as specifically anti-Jewish people, maybe throw in some gay people/etc, but Unionists, Communists, Socialists, and Women were targeted as well.

    The reason it works is because it offers easy answers, and the average person has been made to be so lazy they’ll accept what they’re told, especially if they’re told everyone else is doing it. They aren’t a Nazi, they’re part of the Nazi’s.

    We also have a huge backlog of emotional baggage for men post the 1980’s. At some point we all accepted that men wouldn’t show any emotions except anger, rage, frustration, etc, and then kept doubling down on it. Now you have groups of young men fed directly into a pipeline of Facebook/Youtube/whatever platform that spoon feeds them fascist garbage. Why? Because it makes them tame and easier to control. You notice fascists aren’t out there killing rich people, they’re killing minorities? That’s by design, because the wealthy know they’re fucked if young men turn that rage against them, the real perpetrators of said poor people’s suffering.

    The wealthy love fascism, it gives them everything they want. They don’t see the poor people below them as human, so it’s all just a giant menagerie to them so they can have their Line Go Up Faster than the other rich people.