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antonvstoday at 5:11 PM1 replyview on HN

The way people continue to use X is a perfect example of Arendt's banality of evil: that moral wrongs can be enabled by ordinary people, acting through conformity, careerism, convenience, and thoughtlessness.

They don't have any deep ideological commitment or overt cruelty, they just don't care enough. They justify themselves with claims such as "it's the way things are," "not my role," "everyone does it", or that it doesn't really make a difference.

But if everyone on X that doesn't explicitly support fascism and Nazism stopped using it, it would make an immediate difference. X would turn into something more like Truth Social.


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kitsune1today at 5:21 PM

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