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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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Like South Park on religion: "you're all so focused on the stupid little differences that you're not seeing the big, stupid similarities."

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

nah.

I can't have empathy for fuckheads that want to kill and imprison people based on their sexual preferences or their identity.

I refuse to subject myself to the torture of "working together" with people with fascist ideologies.

I cannot, and will not, coexist with Nazis.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I think op meant more along the lines of normal, everyday people, not radical extremists who hate everyone that isn't like them.

and by normal, I mean non hate driven people. I believe everyone is weird in some way, there is no "normal".

the way I described it to my son is everyone has the same right to be happy as he does, you don't get to dictate that to anyone. we love you for your weirdness and expect the same for anyone else.

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

White supremacists are not radical extremists in the West, they are the norm. They might be more nuanced than those who display overt bigotry but not by as much as they like to tell themselves.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

In many countries most normal people will harass, imprison or kill people based on sexual preference or gender identity.

Just normal people. Not members of any extremist group. Just the guy who is selling groceries or the gal buying them. Most people on this world hate anyone who is different to them.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

True. For example we are all made of ~~delicious~~ nutritious meats.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Bro discovered Christianity

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

This is something we all need to remember

Have empathy and realize that people can have there own views. They aren't dumb because they disagree with you

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

I think if you peel back the ego, the "self" is just obligations that we've made to try to create an "identity" like "I have to draw I'm an artist". "Oh, I have to go to school because I'm a smart person and I don't want to XYZ."

It's all just fluff, or an illusion. If we were to truly be free of all obligations we would find out quickly that we are all the same consciousness wearing different masks. I am me, and I am you, and you are me. If you were to be able to switch perspectives with someone else I'd be surprised if it felt any different than being in your own body.

[–] Vanshaj@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

There is an old saying where I live:

वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam)

This means, the world is one family.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Every molecule that makes up our entire existence came from the fusion of a hot star, and no matter what it looks like right now, it will once again be both the precursor and the product of many more stars.

In that regard we are all identical and inconsequential.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

To paraphrase an old saw, there is nobody as mean as all of us

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

Nah.

A life of experience tells me most people is awful, and will have zero regards on making your life miserable for whatever reason they see fit.

People is generally bad, they just are like that. My simple existence is hated and ilegal in most of the word. Most of people in this planet wish me death without even knowing me just because how I am.

[–] Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

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