• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Fucking libs being like “Well I don’t agree with anything he ever said or did but by jingo I respect him as a person”.

    Chapo’s whole “name your enemies” thing was very important for my development in to the burning cinder of hatred I am today.

    Someone was telling me how great John McCain was bc he dissed trump and I’m just like my brother in christ he set children on fire from the safety of the sky idgaf that he was mean to the real estate buffoon.

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      “Well I don’t agree with anything he ever said or did but by jingo I respect him as a person”

      Reminds me of Marx’s 6th thesis on Feuerbach: “the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations.” Actions and beliefs are secondary and only incidentally attributed to individuals who, in themselves, can be good or bad even if the entirety of their existence negates it.