Post #2457347

2025-06-01 14:00 UTC

the greatest trick the centrists ever pulled was convincing people that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" was about sitting on your ass until things magically got better, and not about the inevitable success of active participatory struggle

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@gilesforyou@mastodon.coffee 2025-06-01 16:25

@ana@starlite.rodeo Oh, definitely. Unless you're actively bending the arc that way, it won't go. It's a long-term—probably eternal—project, but you gotta put in the effort.

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@jonathankoren@sfba.social 2025-06-01 19:58

@ana@starlite.rodeo not just that, but morality was a rachet. It could never go back.

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@awmwrites@anarchism.space 2025-06-01 20:11

@ana@starlite.rodeo If you want the moral arc of the universe to do anything, you have to bend it

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@smicur@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-06-01 21:27

@ana@starlite.rodeo some of them are also into "you do the dirty work for us" too

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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-06-01 21:42

@ana@starlite.rodeo "we're merely waiting until they have fully automated gas chambers, for a greater emotional impact when we liberate it"

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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2025-06-02 01:11

@ana@starlite.rodeo A microsff story I read a while ago: "It will get worse before it gets better?" said the fortune teller. "Is there nothing we can do?" "You're why it gets better."

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@corbden@defcon.social 2025-06-03 22:02

@ana@starlite.rodeo @DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca It lends itself well to the Just World Hypothesis, doesn't it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy

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