• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Speaking for myself, I intend to show up as if success is the only possibility, and I suggest the same to any American.

    It’s far too early to guess the outcome one way or another, and anyone who claims otherwise is a fool, whether they belong to a thinktank or a sports bar.

    But assuming failure is a lazy, shitty place from which to encourage people, including myself, to do their best to stop it.

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      1 month ago

      The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it

      ~ George Bernard Shaw

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        1 month ago

        It’s not going to fail.

        Your own future-looking statement; 100% predictive.

        *“The power of accurate observation . . .”

        Your comeback, lol.

        “‘Accurate observation’ is only applicable to the present and past. Try harder when borrowing false intellectual authentication from old quotes.”

        ~ Me, just now

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          1 month ago

          Try reading it again and this time, pay attention to the context instead of thinking up edgy shit to respond with.

          I’ll bet it makes more sense.

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            1 month ago

            Says the month old account full of brief low-effort posts insisting that any resistance will fail. You know, like the one I just called you out on.

            It’s not my comprehension at fault here, kid. It’s your agenda. I don’t want fascism to succeed in my country. You want people to feel too discouraged to even think about resisting. And I’m here to put a cold boot in that wherever I see it.

            Don’t need no old quote for that. And George Bernard Shaw was a questionable source to start with.

            Shaw was a poseur and a puritan; he was similarly a bourgeois and an antibourgeois writer, working for Hearst and posterity; his didacticism is entertaining and his pranks are purposeful; he supports socialism and is tempted by fascism.

            —Leonard Feinberg, The Satirist (2006)

            As I said, try harder.

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                1 month ago

                Dude. Piefed.world is also a .world account, or hadn’t you noticed?

                Also, seems like you have stopped trying to defend the indefensible, which is a plus. But go ahead, quote another fascist-lite to me in defense of your position.