• bantering@lemmy.zip
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    Agreed but you don’t go far enough. Every company in America pays taxes and supports it. Don’t try and absolve yourself by narrowing the scope. Even if you work at mom and pops card trading store you are supporting the machine.

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      Yeah which is why I’m politically active in the hopes of dismantling the machine. I do what I can in spite of me being an Amerikkkan. However if someday a group of Maoist third-worlders were to suddenly take power and deemed me an imperialist or something, I would probably ask for leniency but I’d spiritually understand if they would rather execute me. Like I’m imagining being lined up against the brick wall and being asked if I have any last words and it would probably be like “damn y’all are cool.” My dream would finally have come true: a society where a person like me is executed for being a reactionary.

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        Ah so you are better than… them. Thanks for confirming your moral superiority. Sorry for trying to ground your ego.

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          “You think you’re better than literal Nazis just cause you oppose genocide? That’s pretty arrogant!”

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            No you think you are better than a dude who works for bezos because you boycott Harry Potter or some shit. I’m saying you ain’t andor. None of you are andor. That’s all I’m saying.

            Evil persists but we have cool circle paint figures to make a paraiah. Good job.

            And maybe try to convince your centrist friend he doesn’t like those Hitler light guys. You actually need their stupid votes.