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I've said this before, and been(more than) down voted for it, but I want more conservatives, more tankies, more anything I don't outright agree with. People will say how bad person in their echo chamber is in their echo chamber.
The early internet was so scarce it was important to find like minded people. Today the internet is so widespread it should be the opposite. It takes 5 minutes to find a entire platform filled with people who all think like you. That's how we got flat earth conventions.
I'm confident in my beliefs and opinions, which is why I want them challenged. I want to think critically, I want difficult rhetoric. I want my world view to be challenged. I want to be uncomfortable.
what do you think about treatlerism?
This only works when they engage in good faith. So no, you don't want more tankies and conservatives, because most of them are incapable of that. Their worldview requires that they do not.
Agree, but I think there are lots of people who are a bit more on the fence, or playing around with ideas. If someone says something stupid out of ignorance or inexperience, and they get blasted for it, they probably aren't gonna learn much from it, and they might go hang out with the people who responded well to it...
Obviously if you try and it turns out they understand what they are saying, and are doing it intentionally, they can get fucked. Problem is it's hard to tell sometimes, and not many people have the capacity to tolerate that behaviour enough to find out.
Problem is, they don't argue in good faith, no matter what evidence or arguments you bring to the table no matter how long or short they're right and you've just been subjected to brainwashing/propaganda.
Nor is it a debatable political position to be spread Nazi-ism or bigotry (which is what most right-wingers do)
Yeah, the marketplace of ideas doesn't really work because people can just lie and other manipulative tactics, and people (yes, you and me too) fall for it (you are not immune to propaganda).
istg whoever solves this problem will win a fucking nobel prize.
It's already solved. You kick the reactionaries out. It's just that a lot of people struggle to accept the solution.
Idk... I'm not sure I want all their racist shit echoing around in here with us.
Plus all that paradox of tolerance stuff
I'd rather not talk with people that genuinely hate me, and/or want to kill me thank you.
Me too - I can live happily with the fact that not everyone thinks like me; but I still want to know what the other people are thinking.
the bubble helps no one, remember everyone on tiktok tweaking when republicans were winning, they were also in their own social media bubbles and never see any of the "woke" mind changing type posts, mfs out here praising trump for low gas prices like they suddenly dropped when he won and haven't already been low.
That’s a hard pitch to a platform known to be unflinchingly rigid about maintaining their wind tunnels.