• ZagorathOP
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    113 days ago

    Side note, I applaud your patience and the eloquence of your response here. Frankly I had written off our interlocutor @yeahiknow3@lemmings.world as a Labor/LNP diehard because everything you said in this comment was…so obvious to me I just assumed not thinking that way must be the work of someone discoursing in bad faith. Especially in light of the way the video linked and my own comments discussing it were framed.

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]
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      213 days ago

      Hey that’s nice to say. I saw how much they were replying and assumed they cared, there’s also a certain amount of theatre in online discourse. While it’s nice to imagine that when you write to someone you could change their mind the reality is that is unlikely, however spectators who are less involved might. I care a lot about democracy, I want good discourse on measures I see as antidemocratic. I don’t think parliament will ever implement democracy, but it sure as hell could make it a lot harder to at a future date.