• hark@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s not defeatism to point out the reality. If you ignore the reality then you cannot solve the problems.

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        10 months ago

        It kinda is.

        defeatism. noun. de·​feat·​ism di-ˈfēt-ˌiz-əm. : an attitude of expecting defeat or of accepting defeat with the belief that further effort would be useless.

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          Voting is the bare minimum of civic engagement in America. There is nothing wrong with pointing out the flaws in the system, but one should be advocating and working towards a solution while doing so. Just letting the mask off fascists win isnt going to solve any of America’s probpems. Thanks for calling out defeatism for what it is!

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          Where did I say that I’m accepting defeat or that I believe further effort would be useless? In the time it took you to look up that definition and paste it to make your condescending post (as if I don’t know what defeatism is), you could’ve just read and understood my two-sentence post.

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          10 months ago

          The first step in solving a problem is identifying it. If we ignore it then we’ll never solve it.