• bastion@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    It’s natural for you to say “who welcomes me? Who attacks me?” and go with those who welcome you.

    That doesn’t make it effective at making the overall situation better.

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      2 months ago

      Which is how Hitler recruited the brownshirts.

      You’d think people would learn this pattern as it’s repeated constantly through history, but alas.

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        2 months ago

        Yep. And it is easily rationalized as doing the right thing, until its too late to do differently.