I've always thought this was one of the most dangerous ideas ever to gain widespread acceptance, and we are currently seeing exactly why. If somebody's politics are so terrible that civil discussion is impossible, why on earth would you want to associate with them? This is how we coddle terrible ideas and let them quietly fester with a vanier of false civility. The seeds of MAGA should never have been allowed to take root.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Yeah, we should just disengage from everyone, isolate them further, and vote like earlier this month.

That’ll solve it.

I can’t wait for all the violence and blood and gore that is coming. I really can’t. (Not accusing you for advocating for it, but goddamn I see it constantly on here).

I really didn’t wanna type some big long thing out. Still this needs to be said.

When I was a kid, I didn’t know anyone who wasn’t a racist. When I was a kid, I didn’t know anyone who wasn’t homophobe. I knew two openly gay people, and they were bullied and shunned by everyone.

Those same people today are treated with respect in the same community that I lived in 30 years ago that treated them with none.

I never heard anything positive about the people who lived on the other side of my segregated neighborhood. The neighborhood was segregated, not because of law at that point in time, but because families continued to pass these homes down. Nobody referred to the identical neighborhood across the tracks by its name. They called it n word camp.

Do you know what changed all of that? The end of isolation.

Take your big, bold stands against fascism. Let it fester all by itself. Talk amongst yourselves in your little echo chambers and watch civilization collapse before your very eyes.

That is the problem. The problem is these fucking algorithms that divide the information that people receive. That is where the isolation starts, and we’re throwing our hands up in the air at half of the fucking people we live among, we give them fuel to be our enemies.

This ancient tribal bullshit has to stop.

Leaving people in their echo chambers Is what is causing these dangerous ideas to gain widespread acceptance.

You’re not going to change the world by ignoring the people you don’t agree with.

You know what? I can’t help but be a nihilist. Everywhere I look our fucking monkeys pounding their chest, gritting their teeth and demanding blood.

The so-called “righteous” demand violence. The so-called “deplorables” demanded violence.

Everyone you talk to demands this segregation.

So what is the game here? What does everybody hope to gain from? Never speaking to their fucking mother again?

Get off my nuts, world. I’m burned out with this shit.

Someone needs to just destroy the Internet.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

veneer

[–] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 47 minutes ago

Veneer!