Most people just want a good life. If we stopped seeing each other as the enemies the world could be better.

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Amen.

What the people who want to control us don’t want us to realize is that you have a lot more in common with the Chinese/Russian/Ukrainian/Mexican/Indian working class… Factory worker/programmer/hard-working house wife… Then you do with your own political leaders and billionaires. People with servants who don’t ever worry about bills. (Biden, Trump, Harris, Vance, Elon, Gates, Bezos, etc)… Don’t look at the foreigners as different and the enemy… Look at the Rich and the Politicians (who want us to blame the foreigners)

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No war but class war.

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Let’s just be friends as they take away my rights and everyone I love rights away, we shouldn’t be enemies as they hunt down and murder someone for “existing”

Maybe we shouldn’t be friends with the enemy and fight against the regime?

This is one of the was Nazis came into power, by manipulating the mass thinking “oh we should all be friends” and now look what happened.

-a trans non-binary disabled person

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There aren’t only two sides to every issue. Thinking like that is limiting.

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solidarity means solidarity. other working class people are not your enemy (re: 1984). the all or nothing mindset accomplishes nothing besides closing your mind off to the plights and perspectives of others.

-also trans and disabled

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Seeing people hold this kind of views is fucking depressing.

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this view

The truth?

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No one is more confused about reality than the ones claiming to know “the truth” Some even name their social media platforms like that.

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Lol what is the truth LMAO 🤣

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As an autistic person, wholly agreed. It is like people are actively trying to isolate and dehumanize us autistic folks.

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Advocating for OP, that’s the learnt way they see how they can become comfortable.

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It’s by design. Divide and conquer Combine and conquer has been the playbook since they (anti-labor think tanks like the Progressive Policy Institute and others that seek to keep labor infighting) started studying group psychology.

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Cant tell if you are pro FPTP or against FPTP 🤔

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Very against it.

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Yea you mentioned divide and conquer then put images of the parliament with and without FPTP. Its easily misinterpreted to say that proportional representation is somehow “divide and conquer”.

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The major difference is money. We should be banding together against the rich, but instead we distract ourselves with what we look like, what we sound like, where we come from, what team (sports, town, city, state, country, …) we support, which sex we have, and a bunch of other things that divide us.

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Aliens are here to unite us (/s).

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I only see people as an enemy if they’ve declared themselves as such. I’m not gonna make the first move, life is too short to make enemies with everyone I meet. That said, if you’ve got a swastika tattooed on your forehead then I’m gonna take that as a declaration that you’re my enemy.

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