• mitrosus
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    2 months ago

    No. “I will support a good service and not mingle with politics”

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      2 months ago

      If fascism was a passive philosophy that didn’t hurt anyone then you might have a point. But as you can see recently it’s extremely dangerous and ruins lives.

      You may not want to mingle with politics, but it doesn’t have the same view.

      • NeilBrü@lemmy.world
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        One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

        Plato, The Republic bk. 1, 347c