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As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong (lemmygrad.ml)

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As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong

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[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think people are inherently anything. We are capable of incredible good and evil. Evil is getting the last laugh right now, though, and at pretty much all levels of social strata, which makes it difficult for me to take the basically good helpless lemming rhetoric seriously.

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I hear you. FWIW I don't subscribe to the "helpless lemming" idea either. To me the "evil" I see in the average burgerlander (I'm from the US) is an apathetic one. Not ignorant, just uncaring. I talked about this in an a post I made about messaging:

It's hard to imagine a revolution in the belly of this beast. This place is depressing in a way that is hard to explain to folks who don't live here. What I can say is that seeing Teslas and $70k pickup trucks zoom past homeless tents day in and day out, and no one around me really cares... it sucks.