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ananda

(31,721 posts)
18. I think the nazi idea of being humane as weak is, well,
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:17 PM
Saturday

absolutely insane.

And many people who were bullied or made to feel weak
have never recovered their own power, which is innate,
and thus feel the need to either be an oppressor or to
side with oppression.

The problem is that we live in an oppressive society.
Many Democrats and humane people often collude with
this oppression because much of the oppression is
disguised as part of the social fabric that is taken for
granted as the best way to be.

The best examples of this are all in top-down situations --
businesses, schools, sports, the arts ... and that's because
money is at the heart of it all.

I think the best kind of society would not be a democracy
but rather a cooperacy.

I think that's the way it was, but at some point changed
to become mechanistic and based on money and control
of land and other people.

This can't work at all in the long run. It must devolve into
chaos and dysfunction; and with climate change in the mix --
and nothing to conrol it-- welll... the future hardly bears
thinking about.

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Sounds like a good idea to research. Stir the pot a bit (or a lot.) erronis Saturday #1
Funny how every time "disaffected former" Republicans throw themselves into 3rd party efforts, tanyev Saturday #2
Oh, fuck them. DavidDvorkin Saturday #3
Dems can't win BaronChocula Saturday #4
We have to learn the power of fear JustAnotherGen Saturday #17
I think the nazi idea of being humane as weak is, well, ananda Saturday #18
A Cooperacy! BaronChocula Sunday #26
Right on ananda Sunday #27
"oppression is disguised as part of the social fabric that is taken for granted as the best way to be.' mdbl Sunday #29
You know what else strikes me. The loss of law and morality. ananda Sunday #37
'Elon knows those computer vote tabulators and we won by alot.' travelingthrulife Sunday #32
Everyone who remembers The New Deal is dead and gone FakeNoose Sunday #36
You are so right BaronChocula Sunday #38
Yup, it's No Labels redux Fiendish Thingy Saturday #5
They can eff right off. FalloutShelter Saturday #6
true 3rd party efforts haven't really worked enough, and prior 3rd party efforts were mainly by the repug party SWBTATTReg Saturday #7
A strong 3rd party in Congress would be able to steer the vote on bills up for passage. patphil Saturday #8
Not this stupid shit again JBTaurus83 Saturday #9
Exactly! More republican shit...let's see who's behind this...Russia, jill stein, muskrat? Or all of them PortTack Sunday #33
A really bad idea. love_katz Saturday #10
Part of me wants to party, part of me wants a lobotomy... littlemissmartypants Saturday #11
Voters should vote Democrats in for more than two terms with a super majority to see what can really be done! chowder66 Saturday #12
There is no dispute I would argue that Independents and people who don't participate in general are where it's at for us Cheezoholic Saturday #13
Fuck that shit! ☝️👌👉 💩 Oopsie Daisy Saturday #14
These are always astro-turf movements designed to benefit republicans PSPS Saturday #15
Here we go again. Because of the horrible job the Republicans are doing Buddyzbuddy Saturday #16
The "rational middle" rears its mythological head. hay rick Saturday #19
There is no more "middle" in the middle Bluetus Sunday #20
Just another flavor of "both-sidesism". LudwigPastorius Sunday #21
F*ck them. BadgerMom Sunday #22
Begin and end with FDR. tirebiter Sunday #23
This message was self-deleted by its author tirebiter Sunday #24
Centrists can't win anymore paulkienitz Sunday #25
Oh, just call it the Let's Scapegoat Democrats (LSD) movement. betsuni Sunday #28
Interesting that the so-called "focus group" did not call the "r's" the niyad Sunday #30
I see the libertarians have not gotten any smarter. travelingthrulife Sunday #31
Yeah this is just what we need (sarcasm) thumper2547 Sunday #34
Sounds more like Quanto Magnus Sunday #35
Not Left not Right but Forward airplaneman Sunday #39
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