How many dead Palestinian kids will it take for you to change your vote?

  • REgon [they/them]
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    25 days ago

    I think we do echo chamber with dope ass bear characteristics at times, but also the Overton Window here is far to the left of what is considered sane and acceptable in Western Politics

    ohoho au contraire my dear pal, for you see, you have stumbled upon my rhetorical trap! heheehhe, you see by disagreeing with me on this point, you have proven my point that this is not an echo chamber spontaneusly grows a fancy and somehow already waxed moustache which I then begin to twirl you have been duped by.. The Rhetoritician! Eeeeheheheheeheehe

    No but you're right. I just wanted to push against the idea we're somehow more of an echo chamber than anywhere else. It's not like lemmy.world isn't just a big box of libs patting each other on the back. This place was really bad before federation, so much self-congratulatory posting about not being reddit and pointless struggle sessions.

    as a result many ideas that would be acceptable in "I'm as left as they come but" spaces are met with razors and lemon juice here.

    You made me (fondly) remember the lib who cried about me telling them they'd get the shit kicked out of them if they were in my org for trivializing genocide and doing all the classic lib condescention.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      25 days ago

      ohoho au contraire my dear pal, for you see, you have stumbled upon my rhetorical trap! heheehhe, you see by disagreeing with me on this point, you have proven my point that this is not an echo chamber spontaneusly grows a fancy and somehow already waxed moustache which I then begin to twirl you have been duped by.. The Rhetoritician! Eeeeheheheheeheehe

      The Rhetoritician would with zero irony make a great character for a post-dirtbag left pod and/or stage production. Especially if every once in a while Plato (was Plato the guy who hated rhetoric?) Would swing in on a rope and start a wrestling match.

      • REgon [they/them]
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        25 days ago

        The main thing I know about Plato is that he would write his master to say "Oh I'm so humble, I don't know anything!" while clearly not actually believing it and then put in other characters that would say shit like "Wow Socrates you are super humble and also smart and correct!"

        The Rhetoritician would with zero irony make a great character for a post-dirtbag left pod and/or stage production.

        This is a massive compliment. Genuinely thank you, this made me happy.