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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 02:34:38 JST goatsarah

   Apropos of another conversation, if progressive/left wing people got our ideal world, we would be happy.

   if the hard right got their ideal world, they'd be miserable as fuck, because their worldview is centred around constant outrage at the state of the world and having an "out group" to rant about.

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     F100 (f100@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 02:55:01 JST F100

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     @goatsarah Also the right’s ideal world is completely incoherent and impractical, a contradictory fantasy.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 02:57:24 JST timberwraith

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     @goatsarah I suspect that they would start to turn against each other, looking for a smaller subgroup of themselves to abuse as an "out group."

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 02:59:37 JST goatsarah

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     • timberwraith
     @timberwraith Historically accurate.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:01:03 JST goatsarah

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     • Mark vW
     @markvonwahlde Huh? They were utterly riven with infighting. They couldn't stop turning on each other.
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     Mark vW (markvonwahlde@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:01:05 JST Mark vW

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     @goatsarah Didn't play out that way in the 20th Century fascist states.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:03:50 JST goatsarah

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     • ajlanes
     @ajlanes @markvonwahlde Ran out of external enemies, started killing their own.
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     ajlanes (ajlanes@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:03:52 JST ajlanes

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     • Mark vW
     @markvonwahlde Hitler and Mussolini didn’t seem particularly happy even before bunkers and lampposts.
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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 06:39:47 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @goatsarah I don’t think the majority of them would be miserable in a sensible socialist ideal world, as the goal isn’t to make one group miserable but rather make everyone happy.

     That’s the difference for me, anyone who needs to make others miserable to feel joy are terrible people who shouldn’t be in charge of anything anywhere.

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