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fundamentally the truth is that the west is as murderous as hell and we all know it but most dont want to or will do anything to deny it, but at least in the west those in power are not murdering each other so there is some kind of stability. but trump wants to throw his opponent in jail and tries to incite his supporters to murder her. trump is the one who crosses the line here and he is one of the worst pieces of shit in our entire political history. i mean this man really is a contemptible piece of utter trash - a criminal and a liar and a user of humans. he really is a piece of utter fucking shit and he strains the limits of any sane persons tolerance to put it mildly.
btw in the west we can at least just about point out the murderousness of our own society in some spaces such as this one without getting murdered ourselves. i mean we all know we'll be censored/shouted down etc. if we do it in public or people will have a competition to see how they can shut us up with sneering nihilist indifference - like daring us to point out more corruption and responding that they know but don't care and hate us more for irrational reasons.
the appeal of trump is also a kind of burn out fatigue with liberalism which has to oscilliate back a bit because its universal aspirations are just not credible for a society that is fighting multiple wars and an existential threat from isis. all this mostly bs talk about "political correctness" like if we called muslims out more then the situation would somehow be less volatile - its mostly being made by idiots, racists and fantasists who think magic trump will solve their problems by calling things by their proper names. dipshits.
but the regressive left is definitely real and isis doesnt care about your safe space and in fact the immigrants who join it get on a basic level that anti racists libs want to treat them as kids with no agency because anti racists are mostly just as hostile to the existence of the other as racists - only they want to erase it like the borg rather than erase it in concentration camps.
but hilary wanted to drone assange and bragged about having gaddafi killed.
i thought we at least PRETENDED we were better than that? no? not anymore?
my thinking is that in advanced technological societies the means to murder becomes so detached from direct bodily experience that ethics becomes a kind of derealized farce to a certain extent. we are enticed by this and want to master it and its exhilarating and terrifying because it really threatens to sever any basis for a moral obligation to the other. or so we hope. corruption gets punished in the end.
its chaos for sure.
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