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sjsdaiuasgdia 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Rich...

The extremity of the current administration's actions do not absolve the sins of others.

The extremity of the current administration's actions should not be ignored just because others did some things in a similar direction.

"Yawn, same shit different day" is how we sleepwalk ourselves into fascism.

drfloyd51 60 days ago [–]

Comments like that aren’t “sleepwalking”. They are complicit.

Zigurd 60 days ago | [–]

Exactly. It's a strange form of whataboutism, mixed with learned helplessness, to imply that having sucked for decades, we can't avoid sucking even more now.

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