• 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    They can’t earn forgiveness by just asking for it, they need to back up their words with action. This guy is directly responsible for thousands if not millions of displaced and/or lost lives. Go ahead buddy, we’re watching

    E: grammar

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      17 hours ago

      You can’t earn it if people already decided you can’t earn it. Don’t forgive them now, obviously, but saying they cannot earn it is how you create desperation in people that pushes them towards another extreme.

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      17 hours ago

      What do we want? Him to sell his house and give the money to the local food bank? Or maybe injure himself, or attack some elected MAGAt? What’s the going price?

      I’d approve any of the above but honest world-view changing is kind of hard to see sometimes. I assume money and action are involved.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        40 minutes ago

        It would be great if they removed their hateful and destructive beliefs from our society as they have no place here.

        Which could mean any number of things in practice.

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        13 hours ago

        Frankly at this point I just want these people to start voting Democrat. Not because they’re particularly good but because that would clearly demonstrate that they understand how wrong they were

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        17 hours ago

        When an alcoholic sets about seeking forgiveness, they’re supposed to go around to the people they’ve wronged and apologize. They’re also supposed to recognize that they make poor alcohol choices and need to give it up.

        Maybe the MAGA people could recognize that they make poor political choices and give up their voting and their activism.

        Like, I try to think how I would react if I made a choice so monumentally bad that thousands of people died, people were tortured, or an entire national economy thrown into disarray. There’s no reparation I could pay to compensate; no sacrifice I could make to balance the scale. That’s kind of the point of forgiveness: the wounded party has not been made whole, maybe can not be made whole, but accepts that trying to wring compensation out of the offender will only make another injured party. But there’s still the question of how to keep the offender from doing it again.