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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 19:07:05 JST Aral Balkan

   The problem isn’t that the bad guys are the bad guys, it’s that the good guys are the bad guys too.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 00:45:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Outpatientzero 🍉

     @Outpatientzero Alt text: Photo (looks historic) of woman with pale skin and black hair smoking a cigarette while staring intently off camera.

     Quote:

     When out of fear you twist the lesser
     evil into the lie that it is something
     good, you eventually rob people of
     the capacity to differentiate between
     good and evil.

     – Hannah Arendt

   • Outpatientzero 🍉 (outpatientzero@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 00:45:22 JST Outpatientzero 🍉

     in reply to

     @aral

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Aaron In Minnesota (aeischeid@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 02:29:28 JST Aaron In Minnesota

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     • Outpatientzero 🍉

     @Outpatientzero @aral yep, I'll vote Harris, and I'll celebrate when Trump loses, but pretending she is a good candidate representing good policy, or that her winning means we have a healthy democracy, nope.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 20:10:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Outpatientzero 🍉

     @Outpatientzero No worries :)

     (To add it to the image in your post using the Mastodon web interface: … (ellipsis menu on post) > edit then use the edit button on the image and paste the text into the description box and save your post.)

   • Outpatientzero 🍉 (outpatientzero@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 20:10:15 JST Outpatientzero 🍉

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     @aral thanks for adding this and for the reminder. Need to figure out how to do that on the original image.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 17:09:31 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Andrew

     @Shivviness Which begs the question: were they ever truly “otherwise decent?” Funny thing about decency, it usually extends to opposing genocide.

   • Andrew (shivviness@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 17:09:33 JST Andrew

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     @aral

     The fascist elite have effectively won when we have otherwise decent members of the American public out there enthusiastically cheerleading a Democratic candidate who is fully committed to continuing the Gaza genocide. These people will be relieved when Harris hopefully wins, and rightly so, but what kind of victory will it be?