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Ed Sheeran is not having a good day (thelemmy.club)
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[+] -38 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (14 children)

But if someone says "Take my side or you're a murderer" they don't care about the kids, they just want to use their moral stance as an excuse for social dominance, which is why many people end up resisting "good causes" to defend themselves against the garbage energy that's hidden behind their "morally justified" anger.

In reality someone either has a sensible opinion or they don't, and you're not gonna pressure anyone into changing their mind with force anyway, so it's just a self-serving excuse to take your neuroticism out on other people.

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  • [–] 26 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

    Soooooo. You don't mind genocide?

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  • [+] -32 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

    My opinions are not so frivolous as to be paraded around for social clout.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

    If there is a question with a simple and absolutely right answer, it's the one the user above made to you. Yet you managed to not answer it. Wow.

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  • [+] -6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (6 children)

    Yes, that's why it isn't a question at all but a way to pressure someone into saying what you want. It's a social dominance tactic employed by dark triad personality types.

    Which are exactly the types the "righteous causes" attract, because it allows them to express their desire for social dominance by hitting people over the head with things that nobody sensible would disagree with in the first place.

    "You're not a supporter of Genocide, are you?!" No you scintillating moron, nobody in their right mind is. And if they were, they wouldn't answer your question truthfully anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    You're not the victim here bro.

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  • [–] -5 points 12 hours ago* (2 children)

    Anyone who is victimized is a victim, the existence of greater victims do not discount the existence of lesser victims. Victimization is a binary, not graded on a scale.

    Social causes are not excuses to vent your pent-up anger at life because you are unable to live skillfully.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Sure, these people must be into social causes because of some hokey amateur psychoanalysis, it can’t possibly be that people are simply not into political violence. I think you need to learn about Occam’s Razor, big dawg, because right now you’re making up conspiracy theories to explain some pretty simple situations.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

    People who are into psychological violence aren't against political violence, they simply don't have the power to commit the latter so they stick to the former.

    The seed of violence is the same. The scale is only limited by your access to power.

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    The only people I have known in person who act like that are serious monsters. One is even in prison now.

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  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago*

    My experience with the majority of ideologues these days is that they do this.

    They give you a false question which is essentially "You're not with the baby bunny killers are you?" And the only answer is no, and the only reason they ask you is to relieve some of all the aggression they're carrying around by forcing you to give the answer they want by posing a false question.

    It's a socially acceptable form of psychological violence. And all it does is make healthy people distance themselves from political movements that otherwise have the right opinions, but are using them the wrong way. Because of their Egos, they're literally losing voters.

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