Makes sense to me

Oh no… Class divide is whether it happened at all or gets swept under the rug… Race divide is how harsh the sentence is, but no one’s making anything disappear

Yeah, but hopefully they’ll be softened up a bit

The Clinton libs would help them come for the socialists… If the magas could tell the difference between a lib and a progressive that is

If it’s magas vs Clinton libs I’ll probably just watch happily

Pretty sure there’s a school shooting in the US nearly every day now… We only hear about them during election season

3… Definitely spend the whole time coming up with appropriate eternal torture for the rest

Lol… Fair point… It was for work though

Grew up in New England. My friend moved to Montana, and was absolutely bullshit that there wasn’t a Dunks on every corner… New England runs in Dunks, the rest of the US not so much. He felt like the “America runs in Dunks” ads we’d seen or whole lives were a lie, and so our whole lives were a lie lol

I think we can take the poster with the grain of salt it’s pretty obviously intended to come with

Good news! Post people donate heavily to Dems and not much to Republicans… Not sure about the dark money though… No idea why he’s got breakfast there… Think he might be losing it

Well yeah… Obviously THE Holocaust isn’t happening again… But A holocaust is… And sadly it’s being perpetrated by the victims of THE Holocaust

They probably did… Folgers and Jimmy Dean are pretty right-wing, but Post gives mostly to Dems according to open secrets… I don’t know about the others

Just letting us know what not to buy ever again

What’s the difference? (Serious)

edit: nm I looked it up… The term genocide was created in 1944 to define the systematic nature of the eradication of the Jews.

hol·o·caust noun 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. “a nuclear holocaust”

I would say it’s fair game to call what Israel is doing to the Palestinians another Holocaust. Not all holocausts are genocides though… For instance the citizens of Hiroshima died in a nuclear holocaust, but it wasn’t a genocide. THE Holocaust was just a term given arbitrarily to what happened to the Jews, and there’s no reason the term can’t be used again. If Israel is systematically eradication the Palestinian people then we can call it a genocide. If they are doing so with “destruction and slaughter on a mass scale” we can also call it a holocaust.

The global oligarchy is evil. The US is full of schmucks allowing themselves to be used by the oligarchy to commit atrocities… Same as China, same as Russia, etc. I suppose it depends where you draw the line for “evil”… Are you evil for carrying out evil orders or just the person giving the orders is evil? What about the person who feeds the person carrying out the orders, are they evil too? How about the bus driver who drives the cook to the place where s/he feeds the person carrying out the orders?

If you take it far enough, one could say that as long as evil is allowed to occur anywhere on earth, we are all evil through complicity

O ye of little profit

Imagine it’s 7500bce… Most humans are still hunter gatherers but in a few places people have started banding together to form cities. The world is savage, hard, and dangerous. Life is short and cheap, and just like chimpanzees today don’t feel any moral qualms about murdering rival troop members, humans hadn’t really evolved socially to the point of thinking of all humans as inherently “special” or worthy of life… Some could say we still haven’t all evolved to this point.

In that context what we were left with was a bunch of sociopaths. And no wonder. Most people would be somewhat sociopathic if their siblings died in infancy or were carried off to be slaves or eaten by wolves, their parents were murdered in front of them, their village was slaughtered and burned, etc. So these city people, and soon the surrounding people’s, saw sociopathic behavior as normal and even something to be worshipped. (Again, some of us still do)

Sociopaths don’t hesitate to harm other people to increase their own power and wealth, even when they don’t really need anything more to live comfortably. In a world where might makes right, this was a huge advantage and the most horrible and brutal sociopaths rose to become kings of their city states.

There is some evidence that hunter gatherers groups would occasionally get a sociopath among them, but more often than not that person would be shunned and banished from the family. It was only when cities became a thing that there were tons of people from many families, so even if you’re family kicked you out, you could just find other sociopaths who had been kicked out, and together you could just kill anyone who denied you.

There’s also the fact that as soon as people started settling down and using agriculture to create excess food, the hunter gatherers around them started trying to take that food because hey, free food. So then you need to start defending your food stores, and again sociopaths rise to the top because they are the most ruthless “defenders”.

Those sociopathic traits continued in the ruling class throughout all of human pre history and history. Right down to today where people continue to worship the sociopaths like Musk, Trump, or even Hillary. It’s a childish thought process of “my dad can beat up your dad”, which makes me feel safer, even if sometimes my dad also beats me.

Edit: just to add that the only reason we can even have this conversation is because, for the first time in human history, large swaths of the human population HAVE socially evolved to the point of recognizing innate human value, and thus can also recognize sociopathic behavior

What if we glorify horrible contemporary people because we’re taught to glorify sociopathic behavior through how we’re taught about historical horrible people?

Not sure if you’re just doing the prompt or really asking, but I’ve never heard the 6 word story given a name, so I’m not sure