• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    Nice bad faith interpretation. Nothing about what I said implies that I can’t recognize that degrees exist. In fact, I explicitly recognized that degrees exist and the contextual nature of them.

    Your inability to have contextual understanding of the wider picture and not limit yourself to the immediate, reactionary perspective is the handicap here.

    One step forward for every two steps back is “technically” better than no steps forward and three steps back. Yet, if you understand the full picture, you realize that both are still resulting in backwards progress; so, another choice needs to be made if one’s goal is to go forward.

    If all you ever do is react to the “greater evil” by giving power to the “lesser evil”, you simply allow evil to hold it over you as a threat to coerce your obedience and consolidate power while dangling performative concessions to keep the people distracted by the illusion of progress.

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      9 hours ago

      It doesn’t give much power to anyone to think “this time sucks, I wish we still had the better times”

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        9 hours ago

        I just can’t with the shortsightedness.

        In a vacuum, no, not that one single instance, but I am not simply talking about the singular instance but the mentality and logic behind it while also criticizing the logic of that mentality.

        I had already made my point about those that miss the “better times” in a previous comment. Then you made a comment about a lack of seeing degrees, and then I continued from that point.

        Keep up

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          8 hours ago

          You are upset about people being wishful for better times, it is just your explanation for the upset doesn’t make much sense to me. I think it’s easier to continue this convo in just the other thread, I’ll continue replying just in that

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            8 hours ago

            Nice accusations about what I am “upset” at, too bad they are completely wrong. Sorry you cannot grasp the argument. I have explained it to the best I can. If you still cannot understand it then you are beyond my help.

            Continue in the other thread if you wish but judging from how this conversation has gone I do believe I’m just gonna check out of it. It is clearly going nowhere.

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              7 hours ago

              I agree that I can’t follow your logic or argument, it just seems nonsensical. If there’s a sense, it is beyond me or maybe you just see some sense in it that I don’t. Not sure further explaining will help, so I get it.