• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Speaking for myself, I intend to show up as if success is the only possibility, and I suggest the same to any American.

    It’s far too early to guess the outcome one way or another, and anyone who claims otherwise is a fool, whether they belong to a thinktank or a sports bar.

    But assuming failure is a lazy, shitty place from which to encourage people, including myself, to do their best to stop it.

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      4 days ago

      The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it

      ~ George Bernard Shaw

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        The future can’t be “observed” because it hasn’t happened yet - that’s fortune teller stuff. Nobody ever managed to do something by deciding it was impossible and not bothering. What other options are there but trying? Don’t give up preemptively, that’s how the fascist bastards win!

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        4 days ago

        It’s not going to fail.

        Your own future-looking statement; 100% predictive.

        *“The power of accurate observation . . .”

        Your comeback, lol.

        “‘Accurate observation’ is only applicable to the present and past. Try harder when borrowing false intellectual authentication from old quotes.”

        ~ Me, just now

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          3 days ago

          Try reading it again and this time, pay attention to the context instead of thinking up edgy shit to respond with.

          I’ll bet it makes more sense.

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            Says the month old account full of brief low-effort posts insisting that any resistance will fail. You know, like the one I just called you out on.

            It’s not my comprehension at fault here, kid. It’s your agenda. I don’t want fascism to succeed in my country. You want people to feel too discouraged to even think about resisting. And I’m here to put a cold boot in that wherever I see it.

            Don’t need no old quote for that. And George Bernard Shaw was a questionable source to start with.

            Shaw was a poseur and a puritan; he was similarly a bourgeois and an antibourgeois writer, working for Hearst and posterity; his didacticism is entertaining and his pranks are purposeful; he supports socialism and is tempted by fascism.

            —Leonard Feinberg, The Satirist (2006)

            As I said, try harder.

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                3 days ago

                Dude. Piefed.world is also a .world account, or hadn’t you noticed?

                Also, seems like you have stopped trying to defend the indefensible, which is a plus. But go ahead, quote another fascist-lite to me in defense of your position.