If you paid literally any attention to Tulsi Gabbard before she rebelled against the DNC, this new turn would not be so confusing to you. She was an anti-gay activist and pro-drone strike Fox News guest before she had a brief dalliance with the anti-establishment left.
You could’ve just stopped there. This is all anybody needs to see to know that nobody should listen to you. In our shitty first past the post system, all this does is pull frustrated people away from the mostly reasonable but imperfect choice. You’re either clueless or intentionally attempting to dissuade people from voting for democrats in order to help trump to win. In this system, a third party candidate cannot fucking win. There is no actual “blue maga” for you to whine about. Stop spreading bullshit. I’m glad your username is so stupid that it’s easy to see on its face that your account’s entire existence is predicated on sowing division or you might actually have a chance at convincing some people. Unfortunately for you, most of the people on lemmy are smarter than the people on reddit. If you actually cared about defending American democracy, you’d shut the fuck up instead of saying this dumbass bullshit that serves only to dismantle what crumbs of democracy we have left, whether your sabotaging words are intentional or not. If you keep posting this braindead shit, then I’ll know for sure that you just want more fascism than we already have. So for the love of all that you are at least claiming to hold dear, shut the entire fuck up about this. Yes, capitalism bad, so actually maybe let’s not hand the country over to donald fucking trump, famous asshole criminal capitalist.
Another one acting like Trump has been in every election cycle since the start of this country. Such obvious bad faith rhetoric.
And Kudos for you for being gullible and being proud of it.
Dude you’re not supposed to go full-troll, gotta keep just a hint of sincerity in there or the normies will sniff you out. There’s no coming back from that.
That is to be expected when you go against the status quo and the duopoly.
Other diverse folks get persecuted by the same people you refuse to criticize.
You are just assuming now, I call out the duopoly, not just one or the other.
You reminded me of these quotes:
“I don’t criticize Democrats cuz I side with Republicans, I criticize Democrats Cuz THEY side with Republicans.”
“Our fight is not Left/Right anymore, it is Us vs.Them.”
“We have 2 corporate party’s that serve Wall St/War Machine/Corporations & crush everyone else. #UniParty @0rf”
diversity
“diversity – A variety or assortment.”
Again, I try to share things not seen in Lemmy, so it is expected that people only wanting the status quo will push against anything outside of that view point.
Guys please stop arguing with this disingenuous accelerationist. They clearly give zero fucks about actually making the world better or improving conditions for real people, they’re just here to cosplay revolutionary and support the conservative status quo.
Blocking them doesn’t silence them. It just means that you, specifically, can no longer see them. Which means you can no longer downvote them or call them out.
Blocking someone is not winning an argument, it’s ceding the floor to them.
Unfortunately, you can’t call them out like they should be called out because we handcuff ourselves with rules about ‘civility’ when they have none. Thus we only can try to call their arguments out, which of course leads to a circular argument where you lay out the counterpoints to their nonsense and they repeat it, just more fervently. Within the context of both the rules and the mods choice to enforce them more on our side than the dishonest people who come here, ESPECIALLY with the prohibitions of calling a spade a spade (no calling shills, no calling trolls, no calling Russian plants, no calling out as a bot or a sock puppet, even if it’s clear the account in question is what’s being called). When you’re basically told ‘be nice to people who are not being nice to you’, the only real answer is to block and move on.
Hard disagree. There’s usually more of us than them, and as we can see from lemmy.ml, when mods/admins blatantly and obviously go against the will of the people, then people abandon them. Seeing 15 upvotes and 136 downvotes is a powerful indicator. Seeing a series of people ridiculing a tankie or fascist or “bothsides” troll is powerful. Mods get afraid to be obviously partisan because people will leave.
But when people avoid testy conversations, it gives power to those trolls and partisan mods.
I still think we handcuff ourselves too much with Rule 3, especially if the comments put up by the trolls are left up by the mod team while removing our comments. I’m not going to go so far as to call the mods here partisan, just unintentionally handicapping the community against paid actors. I am absolutely certain the account I was replying to was disingenuous and not here to have an honest debate. That we can’t accuse users of being bots or paid actors or trolls when they most clearly are definitely is ceding the floor to them. We then have to engage them like they are honest and open debaters, when they are most definitely not. Some of us get frustrated with the same old bullshit going unchallenged and unchecked, so I can see why those people would like to block, but you make a good point about ceding the floor to them.
I agree that rule 3 (and similar community rules) are a big handicap, and I think you’re more generous than I am regarding mods. It’s tough to keep seeing obvious propaganda left up while counter points are removed.
When it gets to be too much for me, I disengage for a couple of days. Just stop reading for a bit.
“Independent journalists,” but he posts a fuckload of podcasts from far right radical propagandists. I think I prefer fact-based journalism to brainwashing myself, thanks though.
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2016 Russiagate smears because she lost to Trump…
DNC and the politicians bought by the owner-class are the ones pushing out these long time democrats.
Tulsi was for Bernie Sanders, I wonder ehat could have caused such a big shift.
I suggest to learn more from independent journalists and not just from owner-class media.
If you paid literally any attention to Tulsi Gabbard before she rebelled against the DNC, this new turn would not be so confusing to you. She was an anti-gay activist and pro-drone strike Fox News guest before she had a brief dalliance with the anti-establishment left.
“If you paid literally any attention” to the presidential debates, you would know she was pushing for Bernie Sanders policies as well.
Culture wars and identity politics will always divide the working class, and I will not disagree with you about that.
Tulsi said she was against regime change wars, but yes, she has the status quo policies on our forever wars and regime change wars. I agree again.
Oh, fuck off, man. It doesn’t take a fucking genius, let alone someone as smug as you, to see how much of a piece of shit she’s always been.
Following the owner-class talking points and smears.
It’s not hard to tell who falls for the Blue MAGA talking points every four years, with their continuous fear mongerging to sway any dissidence.
I am against the duopoly, and I will proudly support third parties that are for the working class.
You could’ve just stopped there. This is all anybody needs to see to know that nobody should listen to you. In our shitty first past the post system, all this does is pull frustrated people away from the mostly reasonable but imperfect choice. You’re either clueless or intentionally attempting to dissuade people from voting for democrats in order to help trump to win. In this system, a third party candidate cannot fucking win. There is no actual “blue maga” for you to whine about. Stop spreading bullshit. I’m glad your username is so stupid that it’s easy to see on its face that your account’s entire existence is predicated on sowing division or you might actually have a chance at convincing some people. Unfortunately for you, most of the people on lemmy are smarter than the people on reddit. If you actually cared about defending American democracy, you’d shut the fuck up instead of saying this dumbass bullshit that serves only to dismantle what crumbs of democracy we have left, whether your sabotaging words are intentional or not. If you keep posting this braindead shit, then I’ll know for sure that you just want more fascism than we already have. So for the love of all that you are at least claiming to hold dear, shut the entire fuck up about this. Yes, capitalism bad, so actually maybe let’s not hand the country over to donald fucking trump, famous asshole criminal capitalist.
It seems you want a community built upon self-censorship and echo chambers.
I disagree with your point of view and your talking points.
We just have a difference in opinion and how we see the world, due to our upbringing and what we read and watch.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter, even if we do not agree.
Understood. You just want more fascism than we already have. Thank you for clarifying.
Fascism has already been in the US for a while.
The duopoly is just pushing for more.
I guess you couldn’t read it the first two times.
I am pointing out that the duopoly is the reason for this “more fascism than we already have”.
You can’t expect a fucking moron to understand this.
“Blue MAGA.” What happened to “independent journalism” if you’re pretending this idea from the far right exists in reality?
Another one acting like Trump has been in every election cycle since the start of this country. Such obvious bad faith rhetoric. And Kudos for you for being gullible and being proud of it.
You do know that labels change…
Blue MAGA and MAGA did not just come out of nowhere.
Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, and many more were being called out way before the new labels appeared.
They are the status quo—more forever wars and socialism for the owner-class—while the working class continues to get crumbs.
You’re not misbehaving, you’re just strange and annoying.
Dude you’re not supposed to go full-troll, gotta keep just a hint of sincerity in there or the normies will sniff you out. There’s no coming back from that.
The others may be doing that, but I do not agree with the status quo or the duopoly.
Why hide what you are for…
There you go again. If you tone it back some people will be able to take you more seriously.
I am who I am, I do not feel the need to hide my diverse ideas and thoughts.
Maybe you should entertain the idea.
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Yes, I try.
Thanks!
Why do you post…why are you here
Echo chambers and self-censorship do not help the working class.
Diverse ideas and thoughts are needed in Lemmy, even if they may be seen as controversial or extreme from the status quo point of view.
Most posts on Lemmy are from owner-class media and the duopoly talking points.
Lies don’t help either.
Being so dense as to lead folks off a cliff doesn’t help.
Calling the world “owner class” and then recommending horse shit is a poison pill.
You’re either malicious or too stupid to see the harm you create.
Regardless you keep equating Lemmy with media and showing everyone the “quality” of your argument.
Thanks for joining in.
I disagree, but feel free to continue your status quo world views.
I will continue to share my diverse ideas.
I’ve been here for a while.
Your posts have been continuously rejected. You are almost unanimously rejected every time you show up and shit one sided bs.
Why do you call that diversity?
Other diverse folks get persecuted by the same people you refuse to criticize. Why do you claim yourself as diverse?
That is to be expected when you go against the status quo and the duopoly.
You are just assuming now, I call out the duopoly, not just one or the other.
You reminded me of these quotes:
“I don’t criticize Democrats cuz I side with Republicans, I criticize Democrats Cuz THEY side with Republicans.”
“Our fight is not Left/Right anymore, it is Us vs.Them.”
“We have 2 corporate party’s that serve Wall St/War Machine/Corporations & crush everyone else. #UniParty @0rf”
“diversity – A variety or assortment.”
Again, I try to share things not seen in Lemmy, so it is expected that people only wanting the status quo will push against anything outside of that view point.
So basically accuse people of “the duopoly” or whatever. Great quotes:
“People are different and this is why everyone is wrong”
“Citing “Class war” means I don’t have to be accurate or even remotely correct”
“My fisher-price understanding of politics means there’s no room for debate…”
Going back to these quotes:
“I don’t criticize Democrats cuz I side with Republicans, I criticize Democrats Cuz THEY side with Republicans.”
“Our fight is not Left/Right anymore, it is Us vs.Them.”
“We have 2 corporate party’s that serve Wall St/War Machine/Corporations & crush everyone else. #UniParty @0rf”
Just by reading these quotes, it should tell you more than plenty of our difference in world views.
It is just a difference in opinion, no need to put words in my mouth or assume anything that I am or am not for.
Guys please stop arguing with this disingenuous accelerationist. They clearly give zero fucks about actually making the world better or improving conditions for real people, they’re just here to cosplay revolutionary and support the conservative status quo.
Don’t engage with them, just block them.
Don’t block people like this, that just amplifies their voice. Call them out.
How exactly does blocking them amplify their voice, especially when loudly calling for others to do the same?
Blocking them doesn’t silence them. It just means that you, specifically, can no longer see them. Which means you can no longer downvote them or call them out.
Blocking someone is not winning an argument, it’s ceding the floor to them.
Unfortunately, you can’t call them out like they should be called out because we handcuff ourselves with rules about ‘civility’ when they have none. Thus we only can try to call their arguments out, which of course leads to a circular argument where you lay out the counterpoints to their nonsense and they repeat it, just more fervently. Within the context of both the rules and the mods choice to enforce them more on our side than the dishonest people who come here, ESPECIALLY with the prohibitions of calling a spade a spade (no calling shills, no calling trolls, no calling Russian plants, no calling out as a bot or a sock puppet, even if it’s clear the account in question is what’s being called). When you’re basically told ‘be nice to people who are not being nice to you’, the only real answer is to block and move on.
Hard disagree. There’s usually more of us than them, and as we can see from lemmy.ml, when mods/admins blatantly and obviously go against the will of the people, then people abandon them. Seeing 15 upvotes and 136 downvotes is a powerful indicator. Seeing a series of people ridiculing a tankie or fascist or “bothsides” troll is powerful. Mods get afraid to be obviously partisan because people will leave.
But when people avoid testy conversations, it gives power to those trolls and partisan mods.
Good point.
I still think we handcuff ourselves too much with Rule 3, especially if the comments put up by the trolls are left up by the mod team while removing our comments. I’m not going to go so far as to call the mods here partisan, just unintentionally handicapping the community against paid actors. I am absolutely certain the account I was replying to was disingenuous and not here to have an honest debate. That we can’t accuse users of being bots or paid actors or trolls when they most clearly are definitely is ceding the floor to them. We then have to engage them like they are honest and open debaters, when they are most definitely not. Some of us get frustrated with the same old bullshit going unchallenged and unchecked, so I can see why those people would like to block, but you make a good point about ceding the floor to them.
I agree that rule 3 (and similar community rules) are a big handicap, and I think you’re more generous than I am regarding mods. It’s tough to keep seeing obvious propaganda left up while counter points are removed.
When it gets to be too much for me, I disengage for a couple of days. Just stop reading for a bit.
“Independent journalists,” but he posts a fuckload of podcasts from far right radical propagandists. I think I prefer fact-based journalism to brainwashing myself, thanks though.
Delete your account and don’t come back.
Feel free to join in self-censorship, but I don’t think that is healthy for the working class.
Creeps like you thinking they speak for the workers isn’t healthy for them either.
Your labels of smearing those that do not agree with everything you say, says more about you than it does of what I am doing.
Gatekeeping the working class, nice.
Most coherent Jimmy Dore fan.
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Thank you, but we all can learn from those we do not agree with.
We must continue to learn and improve ourselves, or try to.