New account but I’ve been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I’ve been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since reddit-logo and everytime it’s an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of pigpoop people who wandered into the sub.

I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let’s enjoy it for now.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Love the gigantic PPB.

    Just wanted to remark that a lot of us have learned our lesson about trying to put real effort into political discourse with Internet randos. doesn’t matter if you put hours into tracking down all your sources and trying to make your arguments absolutely airtight, if the person on the other end just calls you a CCP shill, or an ignorant idealistic Westerner who didn’t have to experience “real Communism,” or a bot, etc. It just isn’t worth the time to try to have an academic debate if the other person is obtuse, ideologically committed, a teenager basically a child, or posting from Langley (lol). Edit: unless you really can spare the time, obviously

    Also, I think hexbears do a decent job of providing sources on average, you can’t force someone to read/listen to them and engage with them in good faith, though. You know that thing about horses.

    Well, happy poops to you too!

    Edit: that was unfair to teenagers