Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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      It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me. At tea time, everybody agrees.

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          Lol, you think I’m the one with something to hide? Let’s do this in front of the class then - tell us the answer to the following question:

          If a guard at a concentration camp during the Holocaust said that he was tired of people complaining about it, and justified himself saying, “the world doesn’t revolve around genocide,” that people needed to “move the fuck on,” and then accused anyone who criticized him of being a pedophile, would these be valid arguments?

          Should be pretty easy for someone who’s not a Nazi to answer, right? I’m sure anyone reading it would have no trouble saying “no.” But for some reason, you can’t.

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            A guard at a concentration camp? No.

            If a protester in australia stopped people from feeding their families at a food bank or kept sick kids from getting cancer medicine by blocking the door because of the Holocaust, would that be a valid position to hold? 🤔

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              Depends, if for example they’re destroying a rail line used to conduct the Holocaust and it coincidentally caused that, then yes. If it’s entirely unrelated, then no.

              Not sure what that question has to do with anything.

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                Have you ever seen “The Rock” with Sean Connery and Nick Cage? To make it really succinct, I support your position and I would be on alcatraz with you (metaphorically speaking), but when it comes time to launch the rockets, I’m with General Hummel and it sure seems to me like .ML would really like to just pull the trigger.

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                I guess it depends a lot with how “related” you find things.

                Its pretty clear in the US that genocides in other parts of the world (or even at home in the not so distant past) are not given appropriate weighting by political parties in power. However, there are still hungry families, people who need medicine, and various other forms of suffering right in the town where you live if you’re a US citizen.

                I don’t even disagree with the position you have that minimizing genocide is abhorrent. However, by talking about “what is related or not” I personally feel like society is spraying blood from the femoral artery and there’s the “tourniquet party” and the “shoot people in the femoral artery” party and you’re like “FUCK THE TOURNIQUET PARTY, they abetted genocide! I’m out!”. Or “Because of their apparent support for genocide, I will vote for the cautery and surgical foam party, even if they HAPPEN to be a 9 hour drive away.”

                On the one hand, this issue is really fucking important. On the other hand, riding the morality of the issue to the point that you do nothing to fix or address ANY problem (which makes a person who only posts about it basically indistinguishable from a neck bearding grouper) is also important to realize.

                Kids were and are dying in Palestine. I have a hard time seeing how the moral thing to do is to make sure some kids grow up without parents in the because they got disappeared by ICE (or any of the issues above). I’m telling you these issues are not related to me: fight genocide AND fight police state / hunger / healthcare etc. The other guy is making the same argument but I guess he wants to open a Waffle House or some shit.

                From where I sit, you have made “minimizing genocide” a weapon that even hurts more people , and simultaneously allows you to feel good about doing nothing by doing nothing.

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                  The democrats are not “the tourniquet party.” Tourniquets stop bleeding, the democrats want to cause more bleeding. They are the “stab your femoral artery again” party. They don’t fix shit.

                  If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress.

                  If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that’s below, that the blow made. And they haven’t even begun to pull the knife out, much less pull, heal the wound…

                  They won’t even admit the knife is there.

                  Throughout history, there have been plenty of times when people supported genocide on the premise that it prevented some greater threat. I’m not aware of a single time in history where that position was the correct one.

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                    Compared to whatever the party of trump is, idk how any sane person can equivocate and just say “yeah it’s all the same either way”. The kind of person I guess with no trans or foreign friends maybe, but even still.

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            Hey, I’m employed and don’t have the time to dig into the lore. What did Lemminary say? Can you permalink it?

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              First they minimized genocide with:

              The world does not revolve around genocide, good god, can we see the world at large beyond a single topic?

              Then they doubled down, comparing being pro- or anti-genocide with “liking waffles or pancakes” and said to “move the fuck on.”

              You’re like the obnoxious person who chimes in with “Why do you hate waffles, huh?” when someone says they like pancakes. Move the fuck on.

              “I will defend waffles with my life!”

              Then, after I pointed out how abhorrent these things were, and they did nothing to deny that the exact same arguments could be used to justify the Holocaust, while also hurling a bunch of insults at me, I called them a Nazi. They responded by accusing me of being a pedophile.

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                Damn, and you still have to provide only a partial context? Only the bits that benefit you and make you seem like the victim, huh.

                How about you share the parts where you relentlessly accuse me of being a Nazi? The part where you misconstrue what I’m saying and purposely fail to grasp my point? The part where I actually fight back by falsely accusing you to prove my point, by using the same tactics you used to accuse me baselessly?

                You’re nothing but a mean girl, Katie.

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                  Damn, and you still have to provide only a partial context?

                  They literally said, “I’m employed,” so I gave a condensed version. If someone wants to read through all your drivel, they can read through the thread I linked. If they want your side of the story, they can ask you. This person asked me.

                  How about you share the parts where you relentlessly accuse me of being a Nazi?

                  I literally referenced that.

                  The part where you misconstrue what I’m saying and purposely fail to grasp my point?

                  I can’t link that part because it doesn’t exist and never happened.

                  The part where I actually fight back by falsely accusing you to prove my point, by using the same tactics you used to accuse me baselessly?

                  I wasn’t accusing you baselessly. I gave you my basis. You didn’t “prove your point” you just lobbed baseless nonsense to deflect from my valid criticisms.

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                    I gave a condensed version

                    … that benefited only you. Why don’t you include any of your own sins in there? Do you really think you’re a saint?

                    I literally referenced that.

                    Quote it like you did everything else. It doesn’t cost you a damn thing.

                    I can’t link that part because it doesn’t exist and never happened.

                    Oh, right, we’re still doing that bit, pretending we don’t understand basic analogies while trying to shove entire hypotheticals in people’s faces. Jfc, listen to yourself.

                    You didn’t “prove your point”

                    What point? Proving I’m not a Nazi? How about you prove that you’re not a pedo? The burden of proof falls on you to prove that I am. All you have are your stupid and loaded hypotheticals.

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            I have nothing to hide. You’re putting words in people’s mouths and crying wolf. How about you share the entire context with the class instead? It’s easier if you don’t start spewing bullshit.

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              What context? That you said all those exact things about a different genocide? You really think that’ll make you look better?

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                You think it’s acceptable to supplant what I actually said in its original context with how you arranged it instead? See how both the post and the picture fit exactly with your behavior?

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                  You think it’s acceptable to supplant what I actually said with how you arranged it instead?

                  I literally just asked whether your exact words apply to other genocides. That’s it. You’re acting like that’s somehow deceptive.

                  Still can’t answer the question btw 🤔

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                    Brother, you’re setting up a false narrative and asking me to debunk it. How is that not deceptive? 😂