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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

If you can’t actually engage with the actual critique and facts of the matter, then why would one want to hear what you have to say?

I did engage, with facts. My comment was removed because harm reduction is a contraversial topic in this community.

Per the interpretation of rule 4 by the mods, this is a manufactured echo chamber for 2024 non-voters to jack off about how great they are for not voting for a "genocider". Fine. You all can have your safe space, and I won't bring in basic facts like "if trump didn't win the election because we all voted for someone else then we wouldn't be dealing with 99% of the bullshit we've got today". I get that you all want a fantasy space where people are free to post their protected opinion with uniform agreement enforced by the moderators, you have a right to that. However, you should consider how weak those positions are when people are banned from examining them and poking at the (fairly large and obvious) holes. You know what I'd call a set of unsupported fantasies enforced by authoritarians and banned from basic examination that is detached from the actual results it produces? Religion.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I did engage, with facts. My comment was removed.

As far as I can see you did not do that to my comment. Did you respond to the wrong comment?

Per the interpretation of rule 4 by the mods, this is a manufactured echo chamber for 2024 non-voters to jack off about how great they are for not voting for a “genocider”.

Call it what you want, but just be aware your favorite comm is as much of an echo chamber. The difference is that the people here exist within the same cultural hegemony you do, so they hear plenty of what you say every day. They, unlike you, are not in an echo chamber, since they hear your bs all the time. You have to seek it out.

I won’t bring in basic facts like “if trump didn’t win the election because we all voted for someone else then we wouldn’t be dealing with 99% of the bullshit we’ve got today”

I think I see the confusion. What youre presenting here is an opinion, not a fact. And it is an unfalsifiable opinion. Looking at policies and the history of the party and the candidate, I cannot agree.

However, you should consider how weak those positions are when people are banned from examining them and poking at the (fairly large and obvious) holes.

So I would again point you towards the previous thing I wrote about people hearing your clichés all the time. Id then add to that with a reassurance nobody is missing on anything if your "poking holes" is just more of you aggressively spewing text about how you think Kamala would be better. I think you would get further in these spaces if you:

  1. Engaged with the critique people give your position
  2. Differentiate facts from feelings
  3. Substantiate your feelings with facts
  4. Present your arguments civilly and engage others with an open mind

You know what I’d call a set of unsupported fantasies enforced by authoritarians and banned from basic examination that is detached from the actual results it produces? Religion.

Seems like an odd definition of religion that excluded quite a few spiritualistic practices.

I would again point you towards the thing I said before: Its like that everywhere, you just dont notice it elsewhere because you rarely spout heterodox opinions. You are now in one of the few online spaces where the western cultural hegemony isn't the absolute baseline, and so you find yourself as part of the outgroup. Most users here will have similar stories to tell you of whatever comm you think does it well.
I think you also need to get a better understanding of authoritarian, because calling a modaction "authoritarian" is very funny.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As far as I can see you did not do that to my comment. Did you respond to the wrong comment?

No. I had a comment removed earlier that would have been basically what I would have sent back to you, but it was removed per a biased application of rule 4, no "Lessor Evil" rhetoric. I'm not going to type it all up again just have it removed. You're welcome to find some repository of old comments and read it if it is available.

Edit: also the irony of complaining about my civility (without citation) and calling me a whiny pissbaby in the same comment is rich.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You can just find comments in the modlog. I just found yours. It had a bunch "facts" (opinions), some unsubstantiated claims, some statements that were straight up untrue, and finally it was just a disingenuous reductive statement that failed to engage with the other.
It was also a statement that diminished Democrats involvement in many of the things you take issue with. I assume that was the reasoning for having it removed. That or just it being regular trite unsubstantiated text with the regular trite rhetorical tricks that everyone sees through.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

some unsubstantiated claims, some statements that were straight up untrue

Cite them.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Im heading to bed now (yes I am studying abroad, spooooky!) so I'll get you tomorrow, but the foreign prison thing? We've had foreign death prisons for ages - Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, we could go on. Then there's the long list of CIA blacksites.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Im heading to bed now (yes I am studying abroad, spooooky!)

What are you trying to imply here?

[-] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That this thread is full of people foaming at the mouth at the mere thought of someone foreign having an opinion and sharing it, and you strike me as the type to do that.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -2 points 15 hours ago

Okay. That's pretty much what I thought, but I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt and a moment to clarify.

No, I'm not offended in any way that you are in a different timezone, from a different country, studying aborad, or are in any way not directly living in the US and being impacted by the poor decisions people have made here. Anyone from anywhere can read about and make informed decisions about American politics, and probably come to a better decision about it than most of the people living here, based on the results of the last general election.

I'd encourage you to check your prejudice, because I am not the person you appear to think that I am.

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