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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that you're not actually contributing to the discussion. You're just parroting talking points and actively turning people away from your stance by being annoying.

It's not super dissimilar to what the trump cultists do.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

calling me annoying doesn't change whether what im saying is true

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one is arguing that you're wrong. You can be right and still annoying about it.

You're not opening anyone's minds on this. You're just being one of the echos in the chamber and turning away people who support your cause.

It's the same as being one of those annoying vegans. Like, no shit factory farming is bad, but the average person isn't really in any position to make those changes.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

>the average person isn’t really in any position to make those changes.

yet I'm told voting blue will make all the difference in there world.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Voting blue these days is just voting for kinda democracy over fascism.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, both sides are the same, of course. BOTH SIDES

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 2 points 10 months ago

this is not a rebuttal

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

this is an appeal to ridicule, not a rebuttal

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you actually think both sides are equally bad, then you're not worth rebutting.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if you aren't engaging with intellectual honesty, you might want to try facebook or twitter or reddit

You aren't worth engaging with intellectual honesty.

Anyone delusional enough to even insinuate that both parties are the same doesn't have a firm grasp on reality, and I don't have any interest in expending the energy to fail to break that delusion.

There isn't a discussion to be had, because you're objectively wrong.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -2 points 10 months ago

they can both be bad without being equal