OBJECTION!

The main thing is the bigotry and making marginalized people feel unwelcome and unsafe. Having trans people and Nazis existing in the same space isn’t really tenable, in practice, most marginalized people would rather be in a space where their existence and basic rights aren’t up for debate and where they won’t receive slurs and threats of violence. So the question is, who would you rather have in your community, oppressor or oppressed?

Of course, this person applies this standard blindly by including “tankies” as “right-wingers.” She’s just abusing a valid argument by using it to dismiss any perspective she doesn’t like, left or right, bigoted or accepting, bad faith or good faith, as “right-wing.”

Aunt Tifa vs anti-Fa (a longer way to run)

Which one??

immiserated possibly a billion more

Hmm, this graph must be upside-down or something, weird.

Fascists paint themselves as being a third position that supercedes the left-right dichotomy, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Everything about it is right-wing and it’s not actually as incompatible with capitalism as fascists claim. Every fascist regime has partnered up with capitalists, who often support them into power in the first place.

*You’re

Are you telling me that you consider “no u” to be too low of a form of discourse for you? You were all about it earlier, what happened?

That’s very true, but none of the people who have replied to me are from .world so I don’t see how that’s relevant.

Trolling is when someone disagrees with you for any reason.

I don’t agree that that’s an “of course.” There should be discussion of specific local races in a general politics community. Like I said, presidential votes only matter in a handful of states. If you add up the populations of swing states, I’m sure it’s higher than any individual state, but there are still some pretty big states where millions of people live that that aren’t included in that. And yeah, everyone is affected by the presidential race, but everyone is affected by congressional races too. If you want to say, let’s say 90% of the content should be on the race that’s relevant to people living in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and maybe North Carolina that’s fine, but if the rest of us have to see their content all the time, then they shouldn’t mind if they have to see like 10% of the content relevant to the people who live in some of the other 44 states.

And to be clear, this isn’t something I’m saying about Lemmy in particular. Go anywhere in America, from the deepest red state to the deepest blue state, and ask about the latest story-of-the-week about the presidential race, and people will know about it and have an opinion on it and care about it. Ask them about local races, and they’ll be far less knowledgeable far less invested, and will probably try to fit it into a framework based on the one race they actually care about, even if they can’t affect it in any way.

There would be so much more potential to cut through battle lines if people would go like, “OK, fine, you don’t like either candidate, you don’t have to vote for them. But do you mind if I ask what state you live in? Maybe there’s someone running for congress or governor who’s more to your tastes. I’d be happy to look into who’s running and discuss them with you.”

But nobody wants that shit. We want the battle lines, we want the group identity, the team sports. We don’t want to do research about boring shit nobody cares about, we want a constant stream of engaging news stories and hot takes that we can all experience together, as a culture.

Do me a favor and tell the middle school kid who’s giving you all your quips that if he keeps trying, he’ll get there eventually.

Good talk, very high level and productive. You’ve really given me a lot to think about.

Throwing around a bunch of playground insults and then accusing me of being the troll is a good bit, 7/10.

I’m rubber, you’re glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

If that’s the level of discourse you operate at, I can join you there, I guess.

No.

By the way, quick question, would you say that you don’t like me based on who I’m voting for in the presidential election, regardless of how I vote down ballot? Because it kinda seems like you’re proving my point here.

Tell you what, if Illinois goes red this election, DM me and I’ll send you $200.

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It is in my country lol. Just because I don’t get to meaningfully vote in it doesn’t mean I don’t live here.

“I know you are but what am I?”

Highest level of discourse.

Misinterprets what I said to create a strawman

Is explained to that that’s not what was meant

Repeats strawman.