Even though I’m not conservative, I feel they have a right to partake in Lemmy.
And I’ll help them do that. Cool?
Yeah, I’m late to the party, but I’m probably just gonna block and move on. You seem like a walking ball of contradiction, and trying to figure out your actual views is probably what is pissing some folks off.
I don’t think you should be banned, but I don’t need to interact with someone helping to spread pro-trump messaging.
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I mean, I think they should be banned because they’re clearly just spreading misinformation and division. “I’m not a conservative, I’m totally a socialist! I just build conservative communities and support conservative ideas because I want to support them! Not because I agree with them!”
“It’s not trolling! I’m just sharing articles for funsies! I’m a retired socialist and do it in my free time! I just share doomer socialist content with socialists, and inflammatory conservative content with conservatives! That’s a totally normal and fun thing to do for a lifelong socialist!”
“Don’t take lemmy so seriously guys, its not like political discussion influences political action and those actions have direct consequences on people’s lives! Politics can be fun!”
Yeah, I ended up going with a block anyhow. They may be legit carrying separate, distinct views in their head, but it was already feeling a little self contradictory by the time we were a couple layers deeper.
Have to defer to Occam’s razor, not Hanlon’s, unfortunately. The simplest answer is more often right when deciding between malice and stupidity, and this user’s actions can most simply be explained as trolling.
Blocking and banning are the only reasonable responses to trolls who play these games with their words and intentions and who thrive on being the nice, innocent victim in response to every challenge.
Why should someone’s political views “piss someone folks off”?
It would be the “I’m a socialist but nearly all my posts are pro-Trump” bit I think. The ball of contradictions.
But also, supporting someone who is setting up new internment , uh deportation, no, concentration camps, among other actions that are kicking the legs out from under our nation and causing the deaths of innocents would be a decent reason to be pissed off about someone’s political views.
I appreciate your honesty. Especially in these times. I respect and support your right to disregard me and move on.
I’ll probably wait until I can find the right quip to post. The point of it is along the lines of “all views deserve equal consideration only if you don’t actually look at the content of some of those views.” Because you seem to think you’re just playing fair, when what you are actually doing is supporting the up and coming dictatorial fascist regime.
And in reply to one of your other questions - all conservatives and republicans may not be fascist bigots, but it’s also clearly not a problem for them that their elected representatives are. That’s pretty much enough for me to know what I need to know about them.
Yeah, I’m late to the party, but I’m probably just gonna block and move on. You seem like a walking ball of contradiction, and trying to figure out your actual views is probably what is pissing some folks off.
I don’t think you should be banned, but I don’t need to interact with someone helping to spread pro-trump messaging.
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I mean, I think they should be banned because they’re clearly just spreading misinformation and division. “I’m not a conservative, I’m totally a socialist! I just build conservative communities and support conservative ideas because I want to support them! Not because I agree with them!”
“It’s not trolling! I’m just sharing articles for funsies! I’m a retired socialist and do it in my free time! I just share doomer socialist content with socialists, and inflammatory conservative content with conservatives! That’s a totally normal and fun thing to do for a lifelong socialist!”
“Don’t take lemmy so seriously guys, its not like political discussion influences political action and those actions have direct consequences on people’s lives! Politics can be fun!”
Fuck off, troll.
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Yeah, I ended up going with a block anyhow. They may be legit carrying separate, distinct views in their head, but it was already feeling a little self contradictory by the time we were a couple layers deeper.
Have to defer to Occam’s razor, not Hanlon’s, unfortunately. The simplest answer is more often right when deciding between malice and stupidity, and this user’s actions can most simply be explained as trolling.
Blocking and banning are the only reasonable responses to trolls who play these games with their words and intentions and who thrive on being the nice, innocent victim in response to every challenge.
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It would be the “I’m a socialist but nearly all my posts are pro-Trump” bit I think. The ball of contradictions.
But also, supporting someone who is setting up new
internment, uhdeportation, no, concentration camps, among other actions that are kicking the legs out from under our nation and causing the deaths of innocents would be a decent reason to be pissed off about someone’s political views.I’ll probably wait until I can find the right quip to post. The point of it is along the lines of “all views deserve equal consideration only if you don’t actually look at the content of some of those views.” Because you seem to think you’re just playing fair, when what you are actually doing is supporting the up and coming dictatorial fascist regime.
And in reply to one of your other questions - all conservatives and republicans may not be fascist bigots, but it’s also clearly not a problem for them that their elected representatives are. That’s pretty much enough for me to know what I need to know about them.
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Means it’s full of people who are cool with us heading that way. Have some quips, though still not the one I was looking for.
Do you roll out the red carpet for them and explicitly say you are helping them?
Nope, not cool.
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Like I said, walking contradictions. It’s tiring.
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