The death of Billy Graham should have been a cause for celebration because fuck that guy. But then his body got displayed in the fucking Capitol Rotunda because people don't understand that the fact that he has victims is exactly why he gets to be remembered well and they don't
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Because that IS FUNDAMENTALLY HOW THIS SHIT WORKS. Victims of violence are part of an enduring legacy of being shit on and the very FACT of us having been brutalized and violated is PRECISELY WHAT ENSHRINES PEOPLE AS HEROES. Hurting us has ALWAYS been a winning proposition
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fundamentally I think it's just going to get harder and harder to take down monuments to white nationalist figures and also that most of the gains people made will get reversed because the fact of the matter is that the right to traumatize us is fucking sacred to these people
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History is an unstoppable cycle of monstrous people being elevated to godhood FOR feeding on the bodies and souls of their victims Their crimes are so sacrosanct, their horrors regarded as such a unilateral good that their memory is more heavily valued than actual human life
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The people who hurt innocents will always inevitably prevail over them—in life and in memory—because to hurt innocents is literally the main objective of the entire fucking game. Abusers get to be loved, and the people they've hurt get to be forgotten
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
This thread hit some feelings I remember from back when. Thought I'd share a view: These abusers have a sort of fundamental flaw: they can't imagine a better world than one where their behavior is justified. I think it reflects a kind of stupidity that can be overcome.
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Replying to @Kritwal @Nymphomachy
You also mentioned, "nobody decent ever gets to win in the end" ... it all reminds me of Nietzsche; the strong oppress because it's what they do. I think it takes a damaged mind to reach for that power, and we're not prepared for it because we don't work that way.
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Replying to @Kritwal @Nymphomachy
Nietzsche was bleaker than that - he believed that you have the morality that says the weak must be protected because you are weak, and if you somehow became strong you would switch to believing the strong must exploit the weak
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That it's all one thing, it's a single unit that can't be split apart To be a master is to have Herrenmoral and to be a slave is to have Sklavenmoral To change one is logically to change the other
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So, like, ultimately no one should pat themselves on the back for just being what they are You don't act like a wealthy white cishet man because you aren't one If you were, you'd act like one, because that's what you would be It is what it is
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You can call it nihilistic or realistic but it's really just about understanding that moral persuasion and the idea of "virtue" we have counts for very little The world isn't the way it is because we're just unlucky and only bad mean people happen to have power
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