• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      And this is exactly how nothing ever gets done. Only criticize, never do anything, create the feeling that getting involved is pointless because"they’re all the same anyway".

      I hate that humans are so awful at nuance. People could absolutely praise and condemn the same person for different actions, instead they want to boil down that person’s entire existence to “good, bad, different, same”. And we all suffer for that

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        7 months ago

        And this is exactly how nothing ever gets done

        I disagree, i think insisting on accepting a binary choice is how nothing ever gets done.

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          7 months ago

          So when I said we should be more nuanced… That equals BINARY THINKING FOREVER, or what?

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            7 months ago

            Not at all, I agree we should be more nuanced, but I think the ‘Biden is better than Trump’ insistence is what leads to this kind of petty argument to begin with. There’s a reason why those people are saying “biden is just as bad as trump” - they’re being forced into choosing between them, when the spectrum of available action is much broader than ‘vote or don’t vote’, including leveraging that action as a bargaining chip to improve the options on offer.

            people are behaving as if there’s nothing to do about Biden’s inadequacies, and those are the people who seem to lack nuanced thinking.