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Mine is when a lib says that a socialist leader is filthy rich because le ebil dictator owns literally everything in the country.

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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

I’m a staunch pacifist and also 100% behind helping Ukraine.

Co-opting of pacifism is peak liberalism, it's such a blatant example of liberals trying to paint themselves as "peace-loving" while being imperialists and accepting none of the flak that actual pacifists receive, and even readily engaging in that flak. "Oh, but I only support defensive wars," motherfucker, it's called the "department of defense" because every fucking side in every fucking war post-Ghengis Khan always frames themselves as "defending." If you accept that you can still be a pacifist while saying war is acceptable if you believe it furthers the aim of peace, then you could be a full blown neocon and still call yourself a pacifist.

Actual pacifists may be cranks, but I have some respect for them for having actual principles that they will stand by even if it means incurring a personal cost. Liberals want to steal valor(?) for their own self-aggrandizement while believing in nothing and sacrificing nothing. And that's not even getting into, "I'm a pacifist, so I just got out of the situation and called the cops."

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

While we are at it you aren't a pacifist if you don't support police abolition. You aren't opposing violence if you are too cowardly to do it yourself but support the state doing it on your behalf.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. That lib is an expert in cognitive dissonance.

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