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The best places online I've seen really allow for all kinds, but hold norms for civil discourse. Weirdly, they also often actually manage civil discussion, even if people also row a bit. And what they succeed in from what I've see
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The Tusky blocklists for eg. Gab and Spinster don't impact the actual communities one iota - most Mastodon servers already block them, and the instance and user level are where the filtering should take place in Mastodon's system
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Most people operate on a caricature version of the paradox, as opposed to Popper's more measured original. Most go with something like "If we tolerate people who aren't 100% our version of kumbaya, we'll end up in tyrann
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de Tocqueville brought this to mind: "Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You
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There's also, I think (disclaimer, righty lean), kind of a lack of understanding that goods conflict with each other. For example, how is diversity really born? Friction, separation. That's how it works biologically, and that&#x27
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I don't know if "genuinely left wing" is a useful phrasing. Leftism and rightism are little more than broad, inchoate moral intuitions that are ultimately given concrete form and specific content by ideologies, philosophy and
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That happens. My favourite is that people like me are "born into not being human", which I'm supposed to be ok with.
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> I signed up on Gab recently to see what people were talking about on there, and the discussion is far less diverse than Twitter (there's just no comparison). Twitter has X, Y, and Z Twitter, whereas Gab basically seems to be just
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https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1328898661569363969
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> The big social media platforms tend to find themselves in hot water when something approaching "hate speech" trends on them. So they have a tendency to regulate that content away. > The center and left in the US are normal
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It's also possible that their defenses sound like that to the people making the "not literally illegal to say them" crowd. As a stereotypical example, grab a random Christian, they say they believe gay marriage is wrong on Bi
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I lean right and genuinely enjoy reading stupidpol.
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AOC/Bernie economic policy may count as centrist by European standards simply because the US is as a baseline much more right-leaning/libertarian and the big econ-left project is to establish a welfare state, which already exist
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Isn't the flipside of that coin that leftism is more or less just plain good and ceases to be leftism the moment it deviates from what we think of as good, ie. basically a No True Scotsman? One reason the Marxist kind of thought patter
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People have suggested re-education camps or other "deprogramming" for Trump voters, including elected Democratic representatives. And yeah, it is often one and the same. Don't remember who it was, but someone said that the pr
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"we need more than deplatforming" and auto-enabling fact checkers which thus far are plainly partisan hacks is a nope. They're just fine creating a political monoculture, and I can't get the taste of vomit out of my mout
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To do that now would be financial suicide. They have several new services, if they manage to get revenue from them they could survive cutting Google. But not before.
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As one example, flouting your skepticism in r/atheism is easy . Coming out as an atheist in the Bible Belt without living on r/atheism first? Orders of magnitude more difficult. Being a pro-social justice liberal in the universit
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Altemeyer should be viewed with some suspicion: He thinks left-wing authoritarianism is a "Loch Ness monster", and in talks with David Friedman couldn't comprehend why eg. labor unions could constitute an authority to a perso
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You're suggesting the person would have to remain jobless for a long time for it to be a cancellation? We're talking people deliberately going for other people's jobs in a country where access to health care is often tied to
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It hasn't started permeating academia - the thing started its life in academia. Most of the newspeak and the mobs' grievances are rather directly born of "critical theory" born at the Frankfurt School. This is a bun th