IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn’t learn his lesson and is fired

  • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    except that I am three times that age, having spend at least last twelve years looking exactly at how emotion and intellect work and how to make all this play well

    and what I see on lemmy is this: every time someone shows well-deserved anger at idiots who made this terror happen(make no mistake, just because we can sit relatively comfortable and just argue on internet, many people experience their lives getting torn apart), there comes someone with the you-cant-just-blame-them attitude, and all that does it “don’t be mad at them, chill”

    Well, no. How they came to be this way? Exactly this is how: they. came. to be this way. Same way neither of us did: making choices. Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.

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          Honestly, I re-read that a few times after posting it because it really looks sarcastic 😂 I wasn’t being sarcastic though, I do agree with you and I’ve seen it a lot on here – for some reason, people are eager to jump to excusing people for their own poor, harmful, negative, and cruel choices in favour of blaming something bigger. It’s weird.

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            9 hours ago

            Yeah, that staggers me to this day. I hate this thought, but it seems to me that most people on the planet will rather do the equilibristics and put their heads way up their own asses than acknowledge a simple fact: “I am here because of the choices I made”. Whatever nuances, “good”/“bad” assesments etc - they all come after this basis. But noo, let’s pretend that if it were not for <insert here>, things would be have been better

            Da fuck. I am in my thirties and see this, humanity is many thousands years old - can’t even figure this out?

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      Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.

      Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place.

      If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats on social media then you don’t understand what is happening, what the sides are and what is at stake.

      You’re advocating for fighting the other fools while the con man runs away with both of your money.

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        Ah, now comes the best part: assuming what I did not say and answering that. Because what can someone with silly 12-year-old worldview know, right?

        And now more to the point

        Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place

        Spoilers: one can say that ignorance is main source of all trouble, but that gets us nowhere right now. We got here by not making people capable of handling life in all its depth. Without people who are developed and balanced no amount of fancy laws, traditions and whatnot will keep things from progressing in ugly directions

        If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats

        And what if I do not think that? Part of reason being that even if today I drop dead all those filthy-ignorant-idiots (and I am so bright and righteous, of course. Sarcasm, obviously), tomorrow same idiotic things will be done by other people

        You’re advocating for fighting the other fools

        Short answer of a tired man: please, quote me doing so.

        Longer answer of someone still caring about at least something: I am advocating against “oh, poor things, they got brainwashed/caught in information bubbles/whatever, things are more complicated blah-blah”. Things are complicated well beyond anyone’s imagination (I am talking in general here. try finding someone who understands a blade of grass totally, on all levels and in all transactions it is being a part of). First things first: fix the damn thing. Again - no, I am not saying “You, people I have never met, go against armed men and die because I say you should”. I am saying “do what best you can, leave all this things-are-complicated horseshit. It never ends”