Hold any fashy Christian to any moral standard and they will immediately turn into a nihilist.
EDIT: I do not mean to imply that I have an issue with Christianity as a whole, Mennonite communities are conservative, predominantly white, but they're not the problem here.
I remember some argument I got into with an acquaintance on FB and his reasoning eventually devolved into telling me I should just stop caring about other people, and who cares if there's a growing number of towns in the U.S. without drinkable water, if those people don't like it they can sell their homes and move.
Dude apparently asked a girl in our friend group to be like his Judeo Christian princess and he'd be her knight?
if those people don’t like it they can sell their homes and move
Is your acquaintance Ben Shapiro
Dude apparently asked a girl in our friend group to be like his Judeo Christian princess and he’d be her knight?
:michael-laugh: these nihilist types are always the biggest freaks
Cool knight cosplay, you going to a con?
This isn't cosplay, I'm going to go have coffee with m'lady.
If the Christian God is real, they will be in for a rude awakening when they're in hell. They cynically emphasize the importance of adhering to Jesus not as a moral framework, but what can Religion do to advance my agenda? Wait, it says that I was born better than everyone else, and I should be given things for being a straight guy? And I don't have to earn anything to justify my narcissism? Where do I sign up?
Weather, man made systems of exploitation, both equally ethereal and unchanging
From the perspective of some random asshole on Reddit, they might as well be.
So much of this sentiment is pure :cope:. You don't have control. You don't get any real choice in the matter. So might as well just say you're on the winning team, even if you're just in the crowd up in the cheap seats.
DSA public ideology: Liz Warren anarcho-neoliberal OWS voice: "true Marxism is free association between free producers, we need consumer freedom not Stalinist authoritarianism"
DSA private ideology: (same labor aristocrat kulak mindset seen in Florida)
If I don't personally meet them, their feelings mean zero to me.
This is a good one to run by all the :freeze-peach: libs. Do you really think this person should be anywhere near any sort of political power? Should they really be free to push this openly-genocidal language on others, and organize with other fascists?
Outside of some bullshit slippery slope argument that ignores all the speech that's already regulated all over the place, they got nothing.
They couldn't imagine that, as all the strawmen they create are entirely moral appeals. This good little pupper of a person is incapable of thinking in materialist terms that go beyond "want treat NOW pls tell me to jump, master :so-true: "
they wouldn't care at all. exploitation, no exploitation, it's completely irrelevant because it's not happening to anyone they consider human.
Material interest causes it. The wealthy first worlder benefits from imperialist exploitation of other countries.
The inherent impulse to pro-social behavior in children is beat out of them by class society usually around middle school or high school. Libs just say that teenagers are weird and moody until they accept the wage labor status quo and become normal adults.
If you somehow become aware of how shit everything is, there's like two realistic options out there. Either you think "wow, this is terrible, I hate that I must contribute to this" and become a leftist or you go "well I'm still feeling fine so that must mean it's good actually".
The first option comes with a sort of lifelong rage and misery and the second comes with bliss. It's an uphill battle.
I think to some extent it is true that a lot of our primitive hunter gatherer/small community instincts remain and are often exploited.
They can say shit like this because they don't have to live with these homeless poor people, they don't have to share the suffering or even see them suffering. In the old primitive days this wouldn't be the case. If you inflicted pain and suffering on others then most likely everyone close to you were there to see or feel it happening.
So while I believe everyone has basic empathy, the social structure we live in makes it harder to care about others. We are too distant and it is too easy to look away and ignore the suffering.
Modern post agriculture society is 10k years old, we lived and evolved as hunter gatherers for 100x as long. It means we need to build society in a certain away i.e avoid alienation, emphasize human contact as much as possible to force people to feel empathy.
They can say shit like this because they don’t have to live with these homeless poor people, they don’t have to share the suffering or even see them suffering. In the old primitive days this wouldn’t be the case. If you inflicted pain and suffering on others then most likely everyone close to you were there to see or feel it happening.
Well that and they'll get their perfectly aligned teeth kicked in if they say this shit in front of homeless people. This is one of the reasons why online discourse is so hostile. In real life, you have to be above a weight class and above a certain size before you can start bullying people while online, any weeny or dweeb can be a bully.
I hope everyone this person has ever loved sees this post
Appreciate the honestly caring. Seriously. So much better than the liberal condescending fake benevolence
