• HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub
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    3 hours ago

    If they are awful people, why don’t good people jail them or kill them? You know, like in superhero movies americans love so much? Or like when cowboys hunt down corrupt men?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      17 minutes ago

      Because we can’t detect or define them as awful out of hand. Awful people don’t have evil printed on their forehead nor do that show up on a detector. Liberal society is founded on the notion that everyone is afforded the chance to fit in and to behave civilly.

      There’s also the matter that the giant oligarch-sponsored trillion-dollar-plus far-right propaganda machine is turning people awful by appealing to fear, rage, hatred and prejudice as a means to distract them from the ownership class hoovering up the wealth and then expecting not to pay their fare share.

      The preponderance of awful people, the propaganda machine and the billionaires are all symptoms of the decay of civilization. And we’re already watching as society collapses.