A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I’d scared too.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    Lol I get it, so no need to apologize. I just think we did it all wrong. We get angry because something is missing from our approach. Like there’s some injustice. I’m not saying people need to be out there every day engaging with toxic assholes or bots. But I do think we all should recognize that not doing that, is helping the spread of these fuckers. One thing I noticed is people of the left had different goals and then people on the right and that burnt them out. The right approached online spaces like they were meeting friends to make fun of and pick on the left. The left was only reacting to things as they happened. They weren’t having fun with any of it.

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      if that’s not good enough for you, you can also rot with the nazis

      E: don’t take it personally

      The Left and the Right share a lot more in common than either side is willing to admit. The Left eats its own, and tells others what to do exactly in an analogous manner as to the Right. Just looking around at the calls for casual murder, I am reminded of having seen the same from the “other side”. I’ve given up any hope of a rational dialogue with virtually everyone on the internet, but kudos for trying to speak truth rather than give up the good fight. We need more of that imho.

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yeah, the disconnect behind the methodologies and desires allows open spaces to be filled with loud hateful idiots, it’s hard to just progress as a society when one side is so motivated to be hateful in the vacuum of saner people going elsewhere. Not entirely sure what to do about that. It feels like a paradox or a catch 22, it’s hard on the psyche to inhabit a space that’s hostile, but moving out of it just enables loud hateful idiots to be louder, and feel they arent opposed until that space becomes a walled garden of nazis and bots circlejerking their hate.

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        Which i think is why we approached it wrong. I watched something with Lefty’s where they just want to be right. When that doesn’t happen they get so mad. Like an injustice has occurred. What I noticed with rightys are they enjoy watching the lefty attempt to change their view while fully knowing it’ll never happen. It’s like some schadenfreude. I think we need that. Logic and reason will come later with some people. I think it’s recognize you’re dealing with an immovable object and just turn it into a play thing