• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    Don’t worry, I want to go after the fascists. But I reject the assertion that making life worse for Americans is somehow more morally wrong than making life worse for Libyans. In fact, I will go so far as to say that if you are willing to hand wave away atrocities as “status quo shit” then it makes sense that fascism is where things end up.

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      6 hours ago

      But making life worse for more groups is objectively more morally wrong than making life worse for fewer groups.

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        4 hours ago

        I wasn’t talking about who is better or worse than who. Do you actually think nobody less bad than trump should face any kind of justice?

        Edited: clarity

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            4 hours ago

            I mean I’m not talking about who is worse than who. For the record I do think Trump is far worse than either Clinton. But I absolutely reject that that somehow means it’s fine to authorise death squads etc. or that it’s somehow “not important enough” to remember all the horrible shit that happened under the Obama admin.

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              But I absolutely reject that that somehow means it’s fine to authorise death squads etc. or that it’s somehow “not important enough” to remember all the horrible shit that happened under the Obama admin.

              Nobody said any of that.

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                4 hours ago

                Yes they did lol, the first thing I replied to was

                Those are political things. Those are things she should have been voted out of power for, not locked up for.

                Crimes against humanity are not “just political things”.