• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    You can do both. Saying they’ve supported dictatorships doesn’t mean they haven’t also supported democracy. It’s bordering on being a non sequitur.

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      2 months ago

      No you can’t. You cannot say you support racial equality while holding a BLM sign one day and attending a KKK rally the next.

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        If I give you a dollar and I give Steve a dollar, I’ve supported you both.

        Your example is also wrong. BLM and KKK are organizations. You absolutely can support both organizations by giving them money. It makes you a hypocrite and means you don’t believe in equality. But when has anyone claimed the United States isn’t hypocritical?

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          Steve and me are entities. Democracy is an ideology.

          You cannot support an ideology while also supporting its polar opposite.

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        2 months ago

        Jesus that’s a helluva straw man you got there.

        🎶 If you only had a brain…🎶