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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s called doing the right thing, and I wish everyone knew how to do it and did it with me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The rest of us do know how to do the right thing. You're not doing anything, your lily-white inaction is moral masturbation. Doing the right thing requires considering the suffering of others over your own passive comfort. Often that means making tough decisions. How much will suffering increase because puritanical children refused to sully their hands on anyone who wasn't perfect? Childish and simplistic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doing the right thing requires considering the suffering of others

That’s what I’m doing.

And you’re trying to spin that as something selfish, as if I don’t have to live with the consequences of US politics as a gay man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes I'm sure that's comparable to the elimination of the nations of Palestine and the Ukraine. How selfless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My point is, if I were acting selfishly, I would not be voting the way I'm voting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everything black and white. Childish and simplistic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is black and white. Genocide bad. There are no shades of grey to that, despite what Democrats (and AIPAC) would like you to believe.

Genocide bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Uh huh, which is why you're happy letting the enthusiastic-support-for-accelerating-and-expanding-genocide party beat the diplomatic-damage-control-while-we-try-to-stop-genocide party. Since the lesser evil is still bad, may as well let the monstrous evil take control.

Are you listening to yourself? Childish.