• fizzle@quokk.au
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    2 hours ago

    People just don’t want to be involved, and I’m not going to judge them for that.

    As in, I have a wife and 2 young kids. My purpose in life is to care for and support them. If I’m at work or whatever and some goons show up to abduct someone I don’t know, I’m not going to start blasting and go down in a blaze of glory because of an ideological position.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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      42 minutes ago

      The truth is there would be more incidents of people fighting back if all the people here actually stood by what they say.

      Notice how there isn’t. Talk is cheap and this place proves it.

      The truth is- youre exactly right. People don’t stupidly sacrifice themselves knowing there is no popular pushback. And at this moment there is not that popular notion that things need to be overturned.

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      2 hours ago

      If you or your wife/kids were being abducted and sent to the camps, would you be happy knowing everyone else stood by not wanting to get involved?

      I get being scared, but inaction is destroying countless families. If everyone stands together, the risk factor goes down.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      An ideological position like democracy, freedom and liberty? This is why the US is where it is. Those things don’t come from nothing. They come from people willing to fight for them.