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A Reminder (europe.pub)
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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

I can't despise them as much as active supporters... apathy is for sure the lesser of two evils there. But, yes... "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

    I'll take your Rush quote and raise you another.

    "Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it."

    That being said, I'm not sure apathy is the lesser of two evils.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I could say indifference IS better than malice or willful ignorance... but, this could easily be disregarded as desire to ignore the greater concern (which I think you're driving at) MLK's expression of, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Comes to mind. Sure, we're getting philosophical... but I couldn't refute that standing, without deploying willfull ignorance of my own.

    I am, vehemently, clinging onto the notion that people in my country are ignorant and lazy, rather than fully malicious... I can stomach the former far easier.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    clinging onto the notion that people in my country are ignorant and lazy, rather than fully malicious… I can stomach the former far easier.

    Agreed. Unfortunately, the more I converse with conservatives in particular, but also people on this very platform that defend not voting in 2024, the more I'm starting to lean towards fully malicious. There are a lot of non-conservatives on this platform that appear to be accelerationists that want full collapse, which will only serve to end many, many innocent people's lives.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, agreed... my outlook is pretty bleak for my country, and by that I mean its people. Conservatives are truly a lost cause, in most situations. The exceptions being people too blinded by propaganda to see the harm they're doing. I don't see a lot of people "defending" non-voting, but that may be more anecdotal.

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