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In regards to the person who reported my elon musk UAW post (midwest.social)
submitted 9 months ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social
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Ignoring fascists and other bad actors does not stop them from doing bad things and/or radicalizing others. This is a common complaint I see in online communities, and it's a flawed strategy that is a good way to lose ground to bad actors.

For the libs: I understand that hearing about current events involving bad actors that upset you may be annoying but please don't report them for that reason.

For the fascists: kill yourselves. You know what you're doing.

Nobody can tell what your motivation is online but the affect is still the same.

Here is a video essay that explains why ignoring fascists doesn't work. The entire alt-right playbook is worth a watch btw.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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[-] StalinwasaGryffindor@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

This is nothing to do with the post, but every time I see a user with an @midwest.social username with their state in the [ ] brackets I get a bit of momentary confusion. We put our pronoun tags in the same form and I’m always trying to figure out if Ohio is a new pronoun and how that works. I love it though, it gives me a chuckle every time

[-] jack@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Ohioans do mostly use Ohio as their personal pronouns

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

STOP TALKING ABOUT (bad thing) ON THIS TINY FORUM OR IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY, WHICH IMPLIES THE TINY FORUM HAS THE SOLIPSISTIC POWER TO MAKE (bad thing) GO AWAY IF EVERYONE WAS AS APATHETIC AS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago

Right on!

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

A lot of people on both sides of the political divide could stand to step out of their echo chambers and learn to think for themselves.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago

"centerists" too, but then they're alright included in "both sides" because they're by and large on the right

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

I'll update it to Disinterested Americans. That would be much more accurate. Doesn't have the same zeal though.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 0 points 9 months ago

Apathetic Americans, even.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Some people care a whole lot about not caring and care about making sure other people care as little as possible. galaxy-brain

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

Oooooh. Thank you for that.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

step out of their echo chambers and learn to think for themselves

Like you, surely. You are immune to any such illusions and are a special chosen one of epic destiny, unlike people that care too much about political issues. very-intelligent

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Exactly! If everyone were more like me then we'd all get along!

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

That's true for me, but I've learned recently that's actually neurodivergence. A quality meme nonetheless.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

And that's how communists are born. cat-com

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

sankara-salute

[-] mossy_capivara@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looks like you got flack from a few angry libs and snow flake fascists downvoting the post

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Can someone explain this meme to me? It looks like arm wrestling. Are the two sides wrestling over the issue in the middle?

[-] gullible@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The white man is attempting to steal the black man’s arm to add to his armory. Fascists are attempting to rip attention to bad actors from libs.

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

@gullible I need to hire you to explain everything to me.

[-] flying_monkies@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago
[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

@flying_monkies thanks! I did not recognise it being from Predator, makes a lot more sense now.

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