if youre worried this place is an echo chamber then tell conservatives to stop being pricks, i mean its not like theyre being mass blocked for saying taxes are too high or something
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I’ve had enough of being verbally abused by Russian bots and trolls, and MAGA malcontents. I haven’t made a complete shift yet, but- so far- this is a space where I can read and comment without being piled on by abusers.
Echo chambers have always existed. Social media just brought it to the surface. I think it's mostly a generic faux concern that omits specificity to avoid criticism.
An "echo chamber" without nazis is just called sanity to me.
I literally saw one right wing account on here saying ‘not one person has proved me wrong on this website yet’ they were literally just posting anti trans memes. Like what kind of good faith argument are you hoping will come from this?
They use the competitive debate model that's based on using the maximum possible level of bad faith in order to shame and threaten people into surrendering.
If we chose a new bar to hang out at because the new owner of our previous watering hole turned it into a redneck free for all, it just means we want a new place to socialize with our crew in peace.
This “echo chamber” stuff is narrative building trying to make the people who refuse to rehash the already litigated and rejected bigoted ideals the “narrow minded” bad guys.
The “debate” is over. We don’t need to listen to or indulge it.
Before Trump you could actually have a conversation with a conservative, they'd even try to cite data. It was shit data and they didn't understand it typically, but at least there was a semblance of a point to it, unlike listening to them screech about dirty immigrant blood or whatever.
Or free Palestine, Support vets, help the homeless, end systemic racism & misogyny, end systemic racism and misogyny in medicine, education, and law, free education, free Healthcare, vaccines save lives.... I could go on....protect children from Matt Ga-I mean, sexual predators
Right & as for the centrists on this; they always "go" first...it's not enough to be of the oppression/resistance, they're traitors, selling out whichever side will benefit them & are not to be trusted.
But more importantly, I'll just keep saying whatever tf I want, then some wannabe Blockwart can put me on a block list, some other people can subscribe to that, and we'll all be happier for it.
Someone says some dumb thing about A. In their mind, it serves the principle or cause B. I disagree with A, because it's just flat out false and can be easily demonstrated to be so, they call me "anti-B" and prance around for whatever mob they happen to like.
You can try it for yourself. Just uphold, say, international law and human rights. Which e.g. means what Israel is doing is fucked up without that absolving Hamas and vice versa. You'll get called anti-Israel and anti-Palestinian for the EXACT same stance - and realize it's nothing to do with you.
"The conservatives" aren't right wing anymore. They're far right across the world. If they all disappear tomorrow, nothing would be lost from the political discourse.
19 million (& counting) users is not an echo chamber. 😃
The difference to Xitter is not the lack of disagreement, it is being able to debate & discuss more or less politely and rationally minus the blue ticks, the bots, the trolls, the abusers, the cranks, the bitcoin scammers etc.
I'm happy to discuss taxes with normie Republicans (at least those who haven't gotten hypnotized by the sect leader yet), I really don't be in the room when stormtroopers, cult-followers, and plain old eejits demand to be heard. Here, the blocklists can keep them out of my sight.
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Good faith
That's what's missing. It's all about the need to own and not the need to learn.
An "echo chamber" without nazis is just called sanity to me.
The “debate” is over. We don’t need to listen to or indulge it.
Before Trump you could actually have a conversation with a conservative, they'd even try to cite data. It was shit data and they didn't understand it typically, but at least there was a semblance of a point to it, unlike listening to them screech about dirty immigrant blood or whatever.
https://bsky.app/profile/pacmanface.bsky.social/post/3lb5i6hdlnk23
But more importantly, I'll just keep saying whatever tf I want, then some wannabe Blockwart can put me on a block list, some other people can subscribe to that, and we'll all be happier for it.
Someone says some dumb thing about A. In their mind, it serves the principle or cause B. I disagree with A, because it's just flat out false and can be easily demonstrated to be so, they call me "anti-B" and prance around for whatever mob they happen to like.
Anyone who hasn't, is at best ignorant of it, at worst part of the problem. Either way, they're at the bottom of my care queue.
If you aren't on *any* block lists, what exactly are you doing?
*banned*
I’m unbothered for wanting that stuff out of my feed.
The difference to Xitter is not the lack of disagreement, it is being able to debate & discuss more or less politely and rationally minus the blue ticks, the bots, the trolls, the abusers, the cranks, the bitcoin scammers etc.