• danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you even hear yourself? Society “tolerating” as if there’s a “them” Vs “us” and we cannot tolerate them. Sounds A LOT like the Nazis who couldn’t tolerate any other views and so killed everyone who disagrees with them.

    That’s not how democracy works. I live in a Greek country and Greeks invented democracy. Here each person has their own point of view, will freely discuss it with others, but no one would dare say anything like “we cannot tolerate” others.

    After the discussion they all sit down for a meal together and have a great time. Because at the end of the day they are ONE people. That is their strength.

    From what I’ve seen the US is ripping apart because you’ve forgotten that you’re supposed to be one nation, United by core principles of freedom and morality. But you all seem fine to destroy each other. All you’ll do is destroy your country and leave yourselves open to the Russians and Chinese to attack you.

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      1 year ago

      You’re too naive.

      There is a paradox of tolerating the intolerant.

      Our enemy are fascists, plain and simple. They don’t deserve a voice. The only intelligent approsch is to combat them, as their purpose is to subvert democracy, however horribly flawed a system it is, with exclusionary autocracy. This era isn’t one of two parties who both believe in democracy, finding some disagreement on issues. This is a crisis, “post-fact” era where truth is ignored, corruption and power-grabs are blatant and undisguised, and bigotry is rampant.

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        1 year ago

        No. You are too extreme. You don’t fight against your own people. It’s a recipe for disaster.

        If you have disagreements you sit down, talk about it and find a COMPROMISE. That is democracy

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          1 year ago

          You might have missed when they tried to overthrow democracy in the January 6th terrorist attack. These people are not our people. It’s a brewing war. They refused compromise for decades - it has been tried. Your lack of knowledge of history and politics is showing.