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This is the kind of politics that's hard to say which position is the more optimistic or jaded. Or both at once.
by awongh 1y ago
This is the kind of politics that's hard to say which position is the more optimistic or jaded. Or both at once.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoAt some point we have to try to make things better, and believe that better (even just a smidge at a time, and possibly with great effort) is possible. Or else we might as well just build the suicide booths from Futurama.
- awongh 1y agoIt feels deeply cynical and jaded to me to say, well, just let Iran fund armies and encourage ethnic cleansing, as long as they don't do this one specific thing that is more important to Americans. As long as the horrors you create only affect people in the middle east, we can look the other way.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoI'd say the cynical position is the one that says "we can't improve everything all at once, so let's not seek incremental improvements."