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Maybe liberals just care more about their community? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

They think they are better than other people. They don't see others as worthy of their consideration. “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?” - advisor to the President Stephen Miller

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

"Can't someone else do it?" - Homer Simpson

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ah, you're describing Moral licensing, and that's entirely plausible.

In this case it's "Littering is bad, but there's no trash cans here and I'm a generally good person so, just this once."

Except I suspect that "once" is really "every so often."

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[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Realistically it was similar in the BLM protests of 2020.

While Trump & Fox were telling demented grandmas that black people were burning entire cities to the ground, the reality was very tame.

Only real disruptions came from police provoking and illegally attacking protestors.

[-] devedeset@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

I literally watched a cop throw a blast ball in 2020 and then subsequently use their own actions to declare a riot

[-] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

I believe Hillary said it best. Deplorables.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Sure bring up that ghoul to make a point.
That whole shitstain of a country needs to go up in flames.
Glad you got Trump.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

This comment brings nothing of value

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

LOL

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

bad people can make good points. most things aren’t black and white. nuance exists

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It is certainly not "a good point".
Out of literally anything that you can choose this insult (not even a point) from a pure sociopath that shows what kind of hateful monster it is definitely is not a good choice.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago

I dont agree with leaving the trash there, but I understand it. It would have been confusing with all the trash already gathering there.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

You can tell who lives there.

[-] Airowird 10 points 5 days ago

While in general the comparison is true, in the specific case of the Kirk circlejerk, people specifically were told to leave their shit outside the venue and TP paid for the cleanup.

[-] polle@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

Even if being told, who drops their trash on the streets?

[-] vogo13@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

How do you know that all on no kings protestors are liberals?

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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago

Whilst I believe the message on the whole, this is just clear... cherry picking, no?

[-] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago

No.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Tens of thousands of people and not a single scrap of litter accidentally strewn from the various people with their musical fanfare. I'm not even sure Japan is that good.

Why don't we just focus on the hard policies which are destroying people's livelihoods with provable statistics, instead of scrounging for wishful narratives focused around littering of all things

[-] Zink@programming.dev 21 points 6 days ago

Tens of thousands of people who had a clear motivation to come across as upstanding citizens, and who generally had a political leaning towards environmentalism. I can believe they didn't leave trash behind.

See, that's the kind of thing that can happen when you value community and work together. You can have significant and nice shared resources. It's not a tragedy of the commons race to the bottom you get with rugged individualists and/or selfish children who see trash on the ground and say "that's bad, the person who did that needs to clean it up and be punished" and then it sits there and rots.

And yeah there are WAY more important things to worry about than how various groups do or do not litter. But it is an illustrative example of the different priorities and values of the groups. It seems like a topic for discussion as we live in a world where some people are still somehow just finding out that this Trump character might not a be all above board.

But for something so minor why are you so insistent upon pushing it away and disregarding it? That's two different justifications now for doing so (these are cherry picked, ok maybe not but it doesn't matter).

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Because blindly believing a meme caption just reinforces the bubble. It's not great.

I would absolutely love for this to be true, but it weirds me out that the only image attribution is on one of the Charlie Kirk images. Literally any semblance of a source would be nice to reassure that this isn't an old shot from a movie shoot with the No Kings logo overlaid.

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[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Anyone caught throwing trash on the ground should have their voting rights suspended till after the nearest election. If somebody is so lazy and has so little regard for their local community - does anyone seriously believe they care about the whole country?

[-] axexrx@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

While i agree in spirit, I feel like that would quickly devolve into cops detaining and beating minorities, just to force them to drop whatever's in their hand, so they can charge them with littering and disenfranchise them.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Disagree, suspending voting rights in general leads to feedback. Like how felons can't vote, so we get more laws that turn their community into felons.

Littering should be punished with community service but your right to vote is not a privilege.

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Animals. That trash is how their brains must be.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Sometimes I fire up the ole' Charlie Kirk assassination video just to see it happen again.

[-] florencia 10 points 6 days ago

That's probably not mentally healthy buddy. How about we shift over to destroying all his life's work instead.

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