Mallspice

That’s a positive perspective.

I’ve seen a lot of that in leftists spaces lately, way more cautious of it now.

Engagement may not be great but it wins. Imo fediverse needs engagement to live long term but maybe doesn’t need toxicity for it, but addiction is inherently a little toxic.

Yes we should be thoughtful, not everyone is unfortunately.

How fucking dare you seek genuine humanity online. lol

I think letting people say anything (with obvious bannable exceptions like abuse, threats of violence, death, rape, and cp) helps, that fact checking or being wrong should not be bannable, and that people should be given more ways to conflict with each other but in a way that spurns creative debate not pure hostility but that pure hostility has real value to show people whether or not they should change and shouldn’t be shut down outright. Like commenting ‘fuck you’ should be allowed anywhere but not ‘fuck you go kys’ because it’s destructive not constructive; like if people with unpopular opinions weren’t allowed to silence dissent, they’d actually change their opinions and do better.

I disagree that kindness should be pursued foremost. Knowledge and truth should be pursued and kindness shouldn’t be allowed in charge because when it is you get shit like language policing which is insanely toxic and stupefying.

You want kindness? Go somewhere designed to be wholesome but please, for the love of honesty and free speech, don’t enforce that crap site wide.

You would think the internet is full of bees looking to make honey but really it’s full of beetles wanting to roll their shit.

Bully them. The only way to deal with a bully is to show your strength.

You know how a lot of libs like to police language? That’s weak and only pisses off bullies. Instead, use their language against them. For example, a decent liberal would never do this but you can do more emotional damage to a maga and make a point they would understand by calling them a ‘regarded fage’ (paraphrasing because that is a ban worthy insult in many places online) over and over again than you ever could by using logic against them.

You might not like it, but nut shots and low blows work better.

My bad. At least that doesn’t change my point as tanks are that too.

When Miyazaki said the AI ghiblifier is an affront to art, I couldn’t help but think that before WW1, tanks were called an affront to horsemanship.

Seems to me that by definition America is more Viking than the Danes as I’ve never seen Danes go raiding in my life while in America that’s a Wednesday.

Republicans hurt the country and our reputation more than help it.

It’s bad enough the only way America can save face now is to stop this.

Not how this works.

The Biden admin and Dems literally tried giving the majority of the people what they wanted and the Reps stopped them to make Biden and the Dems look bad and the irony is Biden and the Dems were ready to give the Reps what they’ve been asking for with the border and immigration for years.

We have first past the past voting here, this means we don’t vote based on who we like but rather who is the lesser of two evils.

It makes it easy for good and smart people here to support things like this, even if they don’t want to, because the alternative is worse.

Depends. Everyone who voted against Trump knows this and it’s probably why they did but most non voters and maga are still ignorant.