• DarraignTheSane
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    2 years ago

    You’re advocating for tolerating the intolerant. All you’re doing is being the Kaiser Wilhelm-looking character in this comic about the Paradox of Tolerance:

    https://i.imgur.com/Pelf2ob.jpg

    Karl Popper described this as a paradox, but it’s not even that.

    Tolerance is a social contract that we all agree to participate in. By not tolerating others, conversatives/fascists have broken the contract, and are then no longer bound by or protected by it. Therefore it is not wrong or paradoxical to not tolerate the intolerant.

    • @joe@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      You’re all over the place. I asked how “not playing their game” has worked out. Do you feel like your strategy is working?

        • @joe@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          And is your tactic making life better for the millions of women who can no longer get a safe abortion?

            • @MelonTheMan@lemmy.world
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              32 years ago

              I enjoyed reading your replies to this dolt. I think they try to exhaust you by muddying the water but all he’s done is make his position look utterly stupid and exhausting.

              I think his goal is to make people afraid to engage and silence others from posting? Or maybe it’s simply to waste your time. Either way, I appreciate your attempt at engaging this bad faith “I’m on your side no really” actor.

            • @joe@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              Yes. I have been told (though they could have been lying, but I don’t see why they would) that I have convinced people to switch their stance.

              Does surreptitiously threatening to shoot people change minds, you think?

              • DarraignTheSane
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                32 years ago

                Honestly come to think of it, I do blame you and people with your attitude for the rise of fascism in the U.S. “”“Centrists”“” kept tolerating them for decades, and they kept feeling more and more emboldened.

                • @joe@lemmy.world
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                  2 years ago

                  No one has ever called me a centrist before. I strongly support a UBI, universal healthcare, subsidized housing.

                  You’re just lashing out because you’re angry and frustrated and don’t know how to channel it except threatening violence.