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  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Lemmings who downvote news posts because you disagree with the conclusions, why?
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    10 months ago

    Nope. Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance.

    You’ll have to excuse the lack of elaboration but I’m kinda done of repeating myself when it comes to this topic.

    You should ditch all qualms about losing the moral high ground over nazis. They don’t give a fuck, and neither should you.

    Come on, don’t make me tap the sign post the Sartre quote, you know, the one that goes:

    Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoDank Memes@lemmy.world•RIP twitter
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, god forbid something stops Musk from effectively dismantling the one tool that was allowing the working people all over the world (Iran, HK, Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street) to coordinate and carry out demonstrations and protests against their governments and powerful capitalist oligarchs.

    Not that I think future examples of these movements won’t find another online space to exist. But Twitter was particularly suited for this task in that it provided real time global updates, same reason many found it an invaluable tool for getting live news.

    And given the current situation of political awareness and working class coordination, this gravitation will likely happen over a long time and may even splinter to different spaces, which I don’t think is a good situation.