• MJKee9@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Ok, historically some political leaders felt that raping all brides before their wedding night was a great honor bestowed upon the family. Egyptian royalty had slaves, family members and pets murdered or buried alive with them when they died.

    Human history is full of it’s leaders doing shitty and horrendous things… We can either sit here and microanalyze whatever country or set of leaders we want to single out or just recognize that historically everybody in power was a piece of shit, and look for ways to do better and make our leaders do better.

    Does anyone here think that the United States and the world is better off with Donald Trump in power as opposed to Kamala Harris? If your answer to that question is " but Kamala supported Israel too hard"… Then my original comment about perfection and goodness is for you.

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      9 hours ago

      Lol, omfg, Lemmy is nuts sometimes.

      No, I dont think we are better off with the known child rapist Donald Trump. I actually also think it’s quite unlikely that Kamala has raped children or owned slaves.

      But I do stand by my claim that child rape and slavery are worse enemies of good than “perfection”. And if your response to that is “child rape is still a relative concept”, then I’m sorry to say you can piss up a rope.

      I voted for harm reduction like a sensible person, now can I please be offended over children getting raped or do I need to pass another purity test?

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        9 hours ago

        Perfection is the enemy of the good. I don’t know why you are obsessed with child rape…

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          9 hours ago

          Well, it was literally mentioned in the post. Unlike… Kamala and Israel.

          And you responded to my comment regarding it with random facts trying to soften how terrible it is, historically speaking.

          So if we are talking obsessive behavior… Not sure it’s mine that qualifies.

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            8 hours ago

            My comment was responding to another comment (which referred to heads of state). I wasn’t responding to the original post. You then responded to my comment which was a sub comment to the post that I guess you really wanted to respond to…Try to keep up.