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Probably a repost, don't care

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32456445

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“...nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..."
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Crowley: What was it he said that got everyone so upset?
  Aziraphale: "Be kind to each other."
  Crowley: Oh yeah, that'll do it.
  (From Good Omens. I swear this scene was in the book as well but I can't find the passage.)
More like, i care more about the people on the exact opposite of the world from where i exist, rather than the people in my vicinity.
Please keep downvoting, this is what it sounds like to those that have the same voting power as you 🙃
- Jesse, what the hell are you talking about.jpeg
  
  You keep losing elections. Part of the reason is exemplified by this meme.
I like the spirit of this meme, but I don't think that caring about people and the planet is sufficient to define a political philosophy? (IMO it is necessary though!) I.e. there are lots of social democrats who care about people and the planet just as much as we do but there's still a massive difference between our politics.
- Something that defines you 100% will require a lot more words.
  This is a pretty good foundation though.
  
  Yeah I'm with you there.
- I think caring about those two things foremost pretty well defined the green movement of the 80s and 90s.
- I simply care even harder /j
- Ppl my take is basically "good vibes ≠ good politics", why is this controversial?
  
  This is a meme, homie.
- It's possible that the differences among those wanting to do good for everyone is what bottlenecks progress. While we all fight over HOW to make the same goals we share happen and not much gets done, the ones who don't care about what their actions do make their own progress because it's easier for them to agree on how to take and destroy.
  
  While we all fight over HOW to make the same goals we share happen and not much gets done, the ones who don't care about what their actions do make their own progress because it's easier for them to agree on how to take and destroy.
  I very carefully picked social democrats and not someone closer to anarchists like council communists because I would argue that, except for the really broad strokes, we actually don't have the same goals as social democrats. Like okay, if I gave you and a social democrat a survey with the question "Do you support an equitable and just society?" I'm sure you'd both check "Yes", but you and the social democrat are going to have wildly different views on what constitutes "equitable", "just", or even "society".
  IMO the bottleneck comes from the fact that the various non-right-wing movements have organic differences that will result in different material realities depending on which groups succeed.
  
  People don’t even agree on what good is, so there’s no way everyone can agree on what to do in order to do good. Many conservatives oppose progress because they don’t even agree that it is progress. They see a very sick society where the family has all but disappeared, social institutions have fallen apart, and the government can no longer be trusted.
  Check it out, even including the partisan dimension of people trusting the government more when their party controls the White House, the overall trend is strongly negative. Just compare! Republicans trusted the government of LBJ — a Democrat in the White House for the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination — far more than they trusted the government during Trump’s first term!
  Democrats have also lost faith in government and not even Obama was able to rekindle it for them. This is a very disgruntled, low trust society!

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