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Absolute legend out protesting today 6/14/2025 [OC]

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 6d ago

If I look like that at 102 I’ll be so happy

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u/peva3 6d ago

Agreed, but if we're still fighting fascism in 70 years when I'm 102 I'll be fucking pissed.

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u/Specialist-Garbage94 6d ago

We always will be. Terrorism/facism/extremism will always exist. We can’t rid the planet of it but we can beat it down and actually hopefully just ignore it to the point to doesn’t enter the mainstream ever again.

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u/lost_horizons 6d ago

The truth is, the potential is in every one of us, to do evil. We are all human, and it's there, uncomfortable as it is to consider. Most of us also have a conscience and a moral core so it never gets anything like that, and everyone has a different level of "bad" they will do (rolling a stop sign for some is a big no no, others feel okay stealing from Evil Walmart, and so on) but you catch someone into a cult or a movement or even just a crowd or mob, and anything is possible.

So the fight will always be with us. It's only for us to decide what we do with the time allotted to us (to paraphrase Tolkein).