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ananda

(32,761 posts)
18. I think the nazi idea of being humane as weak is, well,
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:17 PM
May 2025

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 May 2025 #1
Funny how every time "disaffected former" Republicans throw themselves into 3rd party efforts, tanyev May 2025 #2
Oh, fuck them. DavidDvorkin May 2025 #3
Dems can't win BaronChocula May 2025 #4
We have to learn the power of fear JustAnotherGen May 2025 #17
I think the nazi idea of being humane as weak is, well, ananda May 2025 #18
A Cooperacy! BaronChocula May 2025 #26
Right on ananda May 2025 #27
"oppression is disguised as part of the social fabric that is taken for granted as the best way to be.' mdbl May 2025 #29
You know what else strikes me. The loss of law and morality. ananda May 2025 #37
'Elon knows those computer vote tabulators and we won by alot.' travelingthrulife May 2025 #32
Everyone who remembers The New Deal is dead and gone FakeNoose May 2025 #36
You are so right BaronChocula May 2025 #38
Yup, it's No Labels redux Fiendish Thingy May 2025 #5
They can eff right off. FalloutShelter May 2025 #6
true 3rd party efforts haven't really worked enough, and prior 3rd party efforts were mainly by the repug party SWBTATTReg May 2025 #7
A strong 3rd party in Congress would be able to steer the vote on bills up for passage. patphil May 2025 #8
Not this stupid shit again JBTaurus83 May 2025 #9
Exactly! More republican shit...let's see who's behind this...Russia, jill stein, muskrat? Or all of them PortTack May 2025 #33
A really bad idea. love_katz May 2025 #10
Part of me wants to party, part of me wants a lobotomy... littlemissmartypants May 2025 #11
Voters should vote Democrats in for more than two terms with a super majority to see what can really be done! chowder66 May 2025 #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 May 2025 #13
Fuck that shit! ☝️👌👉 💩 Oopsie Daisy May 2025 #14
These are always astro-turf movements designed to benefit republicans PSPS May 2025 #15
Here we go again. Because of the horrible job the Republicans are doing Buddyzbuddy May 2025 #16
The "rational middle" rears its mythological head. hay rick May 2025 #19
There is no more "middle" in the middle Bluetus May 2025 #20
Just another flavor of "both-sidesism". LudwigPastorius May 2025 #21
F*ck them. BadgerMom May 2025 #22
Begin and end with FDR. tirebiter May 2025 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author tirebiter May 2025 #24
Centrists can't win anymore paulkienitz May 2025 #25
Oh, just call it the Let's Scapegoat Democrats (LSD) movement. betsuni May 2025 #28
Interesting that the so-called "focus group" did not call the "r's" the niyad May 2025 #30
I see the libertarians have not gotten any smarter. travelingthrulife May 2025 #31
Yeah this is just what we need (sarcasm) thumper2547 May 2025 #34
Sounds more like Quanto Magnus May 2025 #35
Not Left not Right but Forward airplaneman May 2025 #39
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