Nazis

XIIIesq

I think there's a difference between blocking people that use hate speech and blocking those who you simply disagree with but I don't know why I keep bothering to try explaining myself.

XIIIesq

I agree that there is a huge difference between blocking hate (who the site should be blocking anyway due to breaching the community guidelines) and blocking someone you simply disagree with or are offended by.

When it comes to being offended it's different, we can all agree that hate shouldn't be tolerated, but offence is in the eye of the beholder.

I could block any users that I find to be offensive and live in a lovely online community where everyone agrees with me but I personally don't want a community that doesn't reflect the real world and I find it mentally unhealthy to pretend that offensive people with different points of view don't exist.

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Why? Why is it a virtue of some kind if when I go online I allow the same people to continually make that experience worse for me?

Choosing to allow that is a valid choice, but it’s not necessarily a healthy one, and choosing not to allow it is a reasonable choice for people to make for themselves for the sake of their own health or happiness.

Social media isn't the entire world. Personally blocking the people I don't want to interact with on specific platforms (or even all platforms) doesn't remove my ability to interact with the world and the events going on within it, nor does it remove my ability to hear other opinions.

XIIIesq

You do you, I'm not here to tell anyone what their Lemmy experience should be, I'm just saying I personally believe that it's unhealthy to surround yourself only with people that agree with you, we all have to go back to the real world at some point.

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Are we all still referring to the comic strip about Nazis?

Schadrach

I feel like this is exactly the sort of thing that makes the guy on the right in the comic feel the way he does. Call enough random people Nazis as hyperbole and you can boy-who-cried-wolf your way into being ignored when they're genuinely at it in full view (aka Musk the other day).

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That is good point. But it requires for them to want to engage in honest discussion and not just spew useless crap they have filled their heads with.

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A production of The Producers. Singing Springtime for Hitler.

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When I saw the headlines about musk, frankly I figured it wasn’t worth even looking at. The Trump show had begun, everything was going to be kind of accurate but maybe overemphasized at times. I imagined it was a weird wave because of his ketamine problem and he was probably high as usual.

Then I saw the clip.

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Presumably they have better friends and family to associate with.

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Someone with the privilege of not belonging to a group that fascists wants to exterminate from the planet, apparently.

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this is why facism should be redefined and renamed based on that, in my opinion. The whole concept has been saturated so badly you cant even use it anymore as is evident in what is happening.

Its more than just bunch of assholes doing and saying bad things, its like disease that spreads to vulnerable people after enough exposure. And i'm not saying its actually disease or taking control of people, human brains just work in such a way.

But if left unchecked it will lead to wars, atrocities and also likely destruction of our potential as intelligent beings. After they run out of outsiders to hate they will turn on eachother until there is nothing left. They also wont care about environment until its so far gone nothing can be done and planet cant sustain advanced enough civilization that can even leave it.

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Good idea, but how do you then denazify them? There's way too many Nazis to just "cut them off", it'd be like living in a rural town without using a car.

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Not to say that Nazis are good, but that's a primarily defensive tactic, where we should be using offensive tactics like propaganda and sabotage. You're not living in the America you knew. The enemy surrounds us entirely and we have to understand that.

XIIIesq

It usually doesn't take long to work out if a discussion is going to be interesting/worth while or not, although some people can be deceiving!

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ObliviousEnlightenment

You were called a nazi because its 36 and youre waffling about what is and isnt a nazi

ObliviousEnlightenment

Usually theyre right

ObliviousEnlightenment

Nazis, fascists, ect were a problem as early as 2010. All the people who are doing nazi shit now, i grew up with them, they were always like that

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Except there were wolves the whole time. Tf does the boy do when there is actually a wolf the whole time and noone believes him?