There's no meeting in the middle with folks who are trying to make a white ethnostate.

I'll debate with my friends about lots of things: is it worth adding a new tax? Is the needle exchange program appropriately measuring their numbers? Does it make more sense to build a homeless shelter next to the other one in the tenderloin to keep disadvantaged folks next to their peers or should we build it farther north so we balance people across care facilities.

These are the things we debate.

Things like, "do trans people deserve human rights?", "are concentration camps okay?", and, "are we cozy with state sanctioned extrajudicial murder?" are not up for debate. The answers are "yes", "no", and "no", and if anyone disagrees with that fuck them. They are a waste of my time and emotional energy. They will never be convinced.

I'm triaging. My friends and family and community need my limited energy. They deserve it.

Good. You should. Rest your emotional capacity, in order to properly listen when talking with actual people, and stay able to make quality effort, to properly research the other side when you can, with a mind to empathy.

Don't let waves of bad faith exhaustion-bait keep you tired, when you're trying to connect with like-minded people. We all need rest and connection.

Once upon a time when the internet was small and niche, this may have been true. Now, it's a firehose of information that is constantly available in your pocket. It's healthy to curate that space to reflect your interests in your precious little time on earth. If you want to pop your bubble so badly, go out and talk to people! Make real connections instead of falling for engagement bait online that only leaves you frustrated and isolated.

I don't think this is a shitpost. Also, the effect of 'echoch ambers' is disputed in science. Some argue that encountering posts or people you heavily disagree with, from groups you already dislike, reinforces your negative oppinion of that group. They conclude that the 'echo chamber effect' is massively overestimated

Communicating with people who you ideologically agree with is not an echo chamber.

Iron sharpens iron.

Shit does not sharpen iron.

God tier shitpost

Sure, if lemmy was 100% of your social sphere.

I mean, kind of. You don't want a mandrake root as a house plant ...

Fam, you should post this kind of thing to !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world I really miss that community.

You know what's funny? I was on my alt and saw this post, here I've got a positive 28, on the alt it was a negative 29, didn't realize the karma system literally reinforced echo chamber behaviour.

Probably due to how defederation works, wild.