• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They count on us dragging each other down, because they want to believe we’re all as greedy and sociopathic as they are. It helps them hurt us guilt free to believe that.

    That’s what McCarthyism was all about, attacking, shaming, and scarlet lettering Americans who did the unthinkable and empathized and encouraged …gasp… cooperation with others rather than gleefully competing against them.