I know there's voter apathy in the US but I am begging you do NOT let trump back in, do not even risk it. now that he's immune he will fuckin kill you

americans have this tendency to go "oh well, we deserve it" out of some weird combination of believing themselves to be priveliged simply for living in the US or some sense of white guilt where applicable but seriously you owe it to yourselves not to let trump back in. you don't deserve what he'd do to you, no matter how much you think you do


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"we deserve it" is such a deep betrayal of leftist principles anyway, like no nobody deserves to live in the world capitalist fascists are trying to create, that's the entire point! sin and punishment are a failed framework for motivating humans and shaping our destiny!

I'd call it a precise inversion. The exact opposite of the truth. Because there are two possibilities: if we deserve it, we had the power to cause it, and therefore have the power to undo it - and the framework of punishment is just a self defeating one which gives up a better future for spite. If we don't deserve it, then we have no reason not to fight against it, and find out if we have the power to change it. Either way, the implied conclusion of the argument of deserving (that we should consent to the punishment we deserve) is shown to be a bad one.