• GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Wayyyyy too many people seem to think that people are just naturally pieces of shit and also think they’re smart as hell for saying so. Seems like a bad way to go through life

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      The core message of liberal civics education, at least as it was given to me, is that humanity is disgusting and sinful and the only way to even partly clean yourself of it is by standing apart from the “mob” that would compel you by your own inherent nature into savagery.

    • pongo1231 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      People with the mindset of extracting transactional value out of everything more than certainly aren’t living happy lives and need to project their misery onto everyone else.