• @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    832 years ago

    Hot take: none. Let information flow free. Take it with the good and the bad. Don’t lock yourself in an echo chamber.

    • katy ✨
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      722 years ago

      i never understood this take. echo chambers aren’t inherently bad; forced debates are never good. communities are supposed to be places you go to feel comfortable not where you’d forced to debate or turn anything into an argument.

      • Y|yukichigai
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        2 years ago

        90% of the time it’s bigots who are upset that they’re getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it’s the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it’s a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.

      • WillFord27
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        Normal interactions with normal communities will be plenty of diversity, there’s absolutely no reason to engage with or listen to nazis. Right wing politics has mastered brainwashing, it’s dangerous to read that shit too often.

        • @TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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          12 years ago

          They’ve mastered brainwashing to conservative religious nutjobs and incels. Maybe young and naive teenage boys, on top of that. If you aren’t an idiot or a teen, you should be immune for the most part.

          • @jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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            62 years ago

            If you aren’t an idiot or a teen you should be immune for the most part.

            Yes but the problem is between idiots and teens you’ve covered about 70% of the population.

      • @stevehobbes@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Exposure to other viewpoints is good. No need to debate. And if you’re on a large instance, you’ll see that. Not everyone thinks alike, there are shades of gray. Discussion is allowed to happen but intolerance isn’t tolerated.

        The tankie instances ban anyone for even asking questions politely that they don’t agree with. It’s a total monoculture and I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.

        • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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          12 years ago

          Exposure to other viewpoints is good yes, but is it good when that exposure only ever gets you insults hurled your way from the people you’re trying to have a discussion with?

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      442 years ago

      Hot take indeed.

      If the dog shits on the floor you don’t just start walking around it, you clean the floor.

    • @seathru@lemm.ee
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      292 years ago

      Not so hot take: My time is finite, why force myself to see shitty facebook memes, dog pictures, crusty “battlestations”, etc.?

    • @tastysnacks@programming.dev
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      172 years ago

      Hexbear kind of pissed me off for a week. But I kind of like how nakedly transparent they are. Now, whenever I come across one of those threads, I see where its coming from and I relax. They’re just pro-russia regardless of if it makes sense. I don’t know what the Murica equivalent of Russia is, but they’re that

      • @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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        82 years ago

        They’re anti US, not necessarily pro Russia. They support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war because they think Ukraine is a US puppet state because the country wants to align with Western nations, and of course no nation on earth has its own agency and everything is the US’s fault. They’re pro anything that challenges the US and other liberal countries.

        They remind me of a bunch of teenagers trying to be edgy.

      • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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        32 years ago

        They are campists. It’s been the bane of leftist parties forever. That’s why socialism really got a foothold in Europe via third-way social democracy, because it doesn’t feel the need to make tyrants into folk heroes in order to relitigate the cold war

    • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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      142 years ago

      That’d be fine if the tankie takes had any value to them. The only value they’ve added to me is showing me why real world communism has always ended up the way it has. And now I’ve learned that lesson, so theres no further value

      • Tug
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        42 years ago

        Same here, but every now and then an English source comes through so I keep them available.

      • @Microw@lemm.ee
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        22 years ago

        Oh mein Gott er kann kein Deutsch lesen grundgütiger wie kann man das nicht können c’est incroyable, non c’est impossible je voudrait penser mais non

    • Tug
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      32 years ago

      I disagree, I would love to block NSFW instances, and I’m grateful to the users that voluntarily post in there. For me Lemmy is too searchable for me to get into those luxuries.