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Is creating echo chambers really desirable in our current political climate? Democracy is built on a foundation of free and open discourse, not in censoring opinions that we don't agree with. All that does is polarize and radicalize people even more.
Lmao ok settler how about you replace a few lead pipes in the ghettos you've enclosed the First Nations in before talking about democracy.
Maybe return 1 square meter of land?
It's not about an echo chamber. There are some instances that say the same few things without being reasonable. They're just political slogans and myths with little bearing on reality. If they were reasonable, sure. It'd be fine. They will take things out of context and when you provide context that goes against it they find something else to attack and act like it never happened. It's not useful and just makes it harder to see other things.
I've seen people from lemmygrad and hexbear provide sources, even western ones, over and over and be completely ignored by the person they're talking to, often with a thought terminating cliche. You got this backwards.
The entire principle of reasonability lies on accepting that other interpretations of facts exist. Removing those who question the prevailing interpretation is harmful for democracy, harmful for journalism, and harmful for freedom of speech.
Oh, it's not a matter of opinions; I just can't stand Hexbear's ugly emojis polluting my screen.
There's also them assuming that anyone disagreeing with them must be a pro-murica propaganda-guzzling librul, as well as contrarianly shilling for anything that is anti-DaWest™ (or was once communist, if we take some liberties with the term), but that's far less important 🤓
Our emojis are good. Talk to your instance admins about the fact that they are too big for you.
And I mean, if you're repeating western propaganda and ignoring us when we disprove it with thought terminating cliches, what else are we supposed to assume exactly?
ETA: Also "it isnt about opinions [excuse that isn't opinions]" but then you start complaining about opinions. SOUNDS like the second part is what you're really mad about.
So... It's Lemmy's problem for not exposing control over emoji size? Sounds like a feature that should be pretty easy to add.
We know where you get your opinions because they are the opinions being repeated to us the same as you. When your distended belly shoots propaganda past your lips when you speak, there's no real use in claiming that you didn't guzzle it beforehand. The only difference is that we recognize it for what it is because unlike you we've bothered to look at sources outside of the western consent manufacturing bubble.
When liberals disagree with leftists, they start acting exactly like the reactionaries they pretend they're not aligned with. "Anyone who disagrees with them MUST be a racist" says the conservative after being called on racism.
Says the liberal after being called on being a western chauvinist.