• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They’re the “anti-vaxxers” of politics. Like those who have lived in a world for such a long time without the death toll faced by people pre-modern medicine then complain about having to get vaccinated the people that seek political upheaval and want a dictator never faced living in a country run by a dictator and all the problems that go with it. So tossing out ideas to start a fascist regime are the same as being anti-vax, they’ve never lost children and parents to diseases that vaccines would have prevented over a lifetime, they’ve never had family and friends picked up by State political police, beaten, disappeared or jailed because of something they said or because a neighbor turned them in for something.

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      2 months ago

      Exactly this.

      Based on my 2020 experience, seeing people whining about not being able to go to Olive Garden, I am pretty sure that the keyboard warriors are not prepared for the inconvenience of living in a war zone.

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      It’s like the will to power but triggered by boredom and misplaced dissatisfaction with the status quo. Back in the day these would be people saying that this generation needs a war (this is before proxy wars and remote warfare)

    • Rider@eviltoast.orgOP
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      It reminds me of Mike Tyson’s quote,

      Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.

      I think what’s happening is that many people live in a bubble, believing it’s okay to say anything because they have “freedom of speech.”

      But in reality, they don’t have the guts to insult someone to their face, let alone threaten them with assassination.