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[Loud Whispers]

"I belong to most hated, most despised, least supported political ideology: I am a moderate."
-Probably all those poor moderates that get caught in the crossfire

I have no strong feelings about this

[Rolan7]

Edit:  On second thought, I'm rapid-posting as if I'm on Twitter (because I'm procrastinating something).  I'mma retract this post.

[EuchreJack]

"I belong to most hated, most despised, least supported political ideology: I am a moderate."
-Probably all those poor moderates that get caught in the crossfire

I have no strong feelings about this

You all saw this coming

[muldrake]

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

At least on Twitter, this malignant form of ideological warfare is almost mandated by the 140 character limit.  Quite literally, in the McLuhan-esque sense, the medium is the message.

In a longer format, nuance could be afforded.  The 140 character thing favors "zingers" and other zero content non-communication over dialogue.

Then there's the even worse practice some have of treating it as a personal blog and writing 100+ long "threads" that are completely incomprehensible to anyone of a normal mentality.  Yes, when I see [1/162] it really makes me want to start out on that brutal slog.

It would be absurd to blame Twitter entirely for this degeneration of public discourse, but it's both a symptom and a cause of more than a fair amount of it.

tl;dr I hate Twitter and if that jerkass Musk crashes it with no survivors I won't care in the least.

[MaxTheFox]

I will die on the hill that left\right labels are silly for everyday use, especially when we talk about views of individuals and not about parties\movements

I know people who put me firmly in the far-left camp simply because I am an atheist and\or openly oppose homophobes\racists

Just because some people misuse labels, doesn't mean labels are useless.

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

At least on Twitter, this malignant form of ideological warfare is almost mandated by the 140 character limit.  Quite literally, in the McLuhan-esque sense, the medium is the message.

In a longer format, nuance could be afforded.  The 140 character thing favors "zingers" and other zero content non-communication over dialogue.

Then there's the even worse practice some have of treating it as a personal blog and writing 100+ long "threads" that are completely incomprehensible to anyone of a normal mentality.  Yes, when I see [1/162] it really makes me want to start out on that brutal slog.

It would be absurd to blame Twitter entirely for this degeneration of public discourse, but it's both a symptom and a cause of more than a fair amount of it.

tl;dr I hate Twitter and if that jerkass Musk crashes it with no survivors I won't care in the least.

I said I don't even post on Twitter. I just hate those people.

I hate it when people expect me to tolerate the far-right. I don't consider them worthy of rational debate, only mockery and, if possible, emotional abuse.

[EuchreJack]

There are certain ideas that don't deserve legitimacy.
They're just so bad they need to be suppressed.
Really, the question is at what point does that occur.

[Frumple]

Decent starting point would probably some point a bit before you start endorsing replacement theory with any seriousness. If you felt like just starting at around Carlson and working your way down you'd probably end up alright.

[EuchreJack]

Yeah, I fucking hate Carlson. He's a hack that figured out early on he was just too stupid and annoying to ever succeed in Mainstream Media, so he veered hard right when few legitimate media personalities were interested in the right-wing media.
And he's mostly coasted ever since.

[King Zultan]

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

How dare I hate people who support genocide and totalitarianism!

I also believe Th4DwArfY1's statement is true as you said I was a bad person because I just ignored people that said that kind of thing and I didn't see any point in making people like that suffer or die.



Also why have we come back to this discussion I thought it was done and over with.

[MaxTheFox]

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

How dare I hate people who support genocide and totalitarianism!

I also believe Th4DwArfY1's statement is true as you said I was a bad person because I just ignored people that said that kind of thing and I didn't see any point in making people like that suffer or die.

I don't hate you, nor do I consider you an enemy. You have bad beliefs, but I don't want to see you punished for it because they are not bad enough.

[Magmacube_tr]

I've always found this ''left and right'' stuff confusing. Like, what do they even mean? Can't we just classify people as ''cool and shitty''?

[Starver]

How about if one's politics is to be economically cool but socially shitty?

[Magmacube_tr]

How about if one's politics is to be economically cool but socially shitty?

No not like that. Why can't we just put all the fascists and bigots into the shitty category, rest to cool?

[anewaname]

Because the shitty category is already full of politicians?

[Magmacube_tr]

Because the shitty category is already full of politicians?

The Shitty Ones have inflitrated our goverments, you say?