• Jerkface (any/all)
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      7 hours ago

      That’s not what is happening. I know it’s upsetting that there are people who believe differently than you do. That’s what this article is about: that there exist people with some truly upsetting opinions, and furthermore, that we know a bit about their demographic make up.

      • @[email protected]
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        The more you platform them the more voice and visibility they get, which ends up drawing support for this 51st nonsense. I don’t care to learn about the ignorant mindset of traitorous pieces of shit. They should stop voting for policies and parties that privilege the rich. But they’re too dumb for even that.

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          I don’t care to learn about the ignorant mindset of traitorous pieces of shit.

          How the fuck else do you hope to… no, never mind. We’re not having a discussion, you’re just making emotional expressions. But I will say that this model of yours that says people do these things because they are stupid or “dumb” might help you cope emotionally, but it prevents you from reaching any genuine insight.

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            25 hours ago

            But I will say that this model of yours that says people do these things because they are stupid or “dumb” might help you cope emotionally, but it prevents you from reaching any genuine insight.

            I’m not the person you were responding to but I just wanted to make perfectly clear that you are 100% full of shit.

            It doesn’t give anyone ANY measure of “cope” that so many people are fucking stupid. Its terrifying, despairing, and awful. I would rather delusionally believe I could convince them of rational stances, now that would be cope.

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              You should probably… idk, actually read what they said.

              Treating everyone you disagree with like they’re stupid is coping emotionally. Instead of taking the time to, idk discuss things with people they’ve written them off as dumb before they ever speak to them.

              Yes, approaching discourse this way and believing that you can achieve any kind of middle ground is delusional.

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                I can unequivocally say that anyone entertaining the idea of Canada as a state as a good idea - is a fucking tool. Yeah I’m going to write that off. There’s no middle ground with people too dumb to realize they would be much worse off in that scenario.

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                Treating everyone you disagree with like they’re stupid is coping emotionally. Instead of taking the time to, idk discuss things with people they’ve written them off as dumb before they ever speak to them.

                You don’t know fuck all how much I’ve done precisely that. I obsessively debated various political and economic ideologies for like a straight decade of my life in invite-only forums specifically designed for such debate. I changed my own mind over time, and changed other people’s minds. I’ve done it.

                But I promise you, the people supporting these ideas proposed by the Trump administration are not just stupid, but WILLINGLY IGNORANT for their own selfish purposes. The amount coursing hatred I feel for them burns like the accretion disc of a quasar.

                They are not people I would bother to debate. They are quite literally just my enemy. Mortal enemies. I don’t want middle ground with them. I want something else.

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                  13 hours ago

                  Just FYI, it’s wilfully ignorant, not “willingly ignorant”. Not that it matters, but I can see you were trying to make a point but it kind of fell apart at “willingly”. Sorry, I accept my downvotes with dignity. Making comments like this is a thankless job, but someone’s got to do it.

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          There is a very important difference between “platforming” and “reporting” and you really should to learn what it is before you start policing people.

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            35 hours ago

            Platforming is perhaps the wrong term, maybe “selective reporting” and “cherry picking” fits better.