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I've never wanted to engage these people, but after Trump stripped the security from Fauci and Bolton and Pompeo, I have a morbid curiosity to see how'd they justify it. I mean, really, how do you defend stripping protection from your political opponents, who you know are being targeted by extremists, with no real justification or even reasoning beyong them being political opponents?
By saying it's "wasting unnecessary" tax dollars. I saw a comment that said he should be able to afford his own security because "we the tax payers fund his 300k yearly retirement". Meanwhile the fat cats are laughing all the way to the bank as this guy fights for a literal crumb of a crumb 🙄
Yeah, that does seem to be the tenor of it.
It might make me a terrible person, but I hate Trump more for how stupid everything he does is than how evil it is. Every step of the war he hurts us, econimically, diplomatically, bureaucratically. Even if he doesn't try an ethnic cleansing and self-coup, the damage he has done to democratic institutions, professional government and our place in the world is something none of us will live to see America recover from.
For an hour today I had to listen to a conservative talk radio host keep repeating that if anyone in Europe said there were only 2 genders that the "stormtroopers" would be knocking on their door the next day. Over and over again trying to drill it into people's heads that this happens somewhere. It only happens in their fantasies, the fantasies they are trying to normalize because they want people to think it is normal when they start knocking on peoples doors for having any freedom of speech or expression. (Ignoring that Desantis ordered just this when people signed a petition to get something voted on)
Fucking exhausting listening to the wack shit they say.
Users can have upvotes and downvotes disabled in settings so they are never see how many vote up or down.
In my mobile client I don't see down votes and I like it that way. Today I logged in on my desktop and saw them. So I went through my comment history laughing for a while. I think I was down voted the most when I had something negative to say about neoliberals.
I am unbothered being down voted and think generally that the whole upvote tally can lead to groupthink in general. Being able to disable viewing them is a good design choice that could be made better being site | instance wide.
As a social experiment I wonder how much we have become accustomed to internet points as a form of self validation. If a large whole instance was segregated for a month or two and had disabled the voting tally, what would the engagement look like? Is it all ego driven?
Totally agree with you in relation to groupthink and it's the main reason I have them disabled too. I don't like my opinion of a comment to be influenced by others before I've even finished reading it.
They absolutely are incapable of believing they are wrong at all. Every solution that includes them being correct or in the right are the only viable ones and everything else is a trick, or a lie, or "buzzword here". They are conspiracy theorists and suffer the same deep logical failings.
I've never met a conservative that wasn't a trash human if I dug deep enough.
Universally uninformed and hateful. Prerequisites for the ideology.
I was a conservative. I am not a trash human.......um....I am also not remotely conservative anymore, so...hmmm. 🤔
I know conservatives that are alright. But they drank the koolaid...
I think a lot of them need an antidote more than exile. But it's hard to find it for them..
They could be allies still.
They have Seidit, an old Reddit ripoff. I have seen a sub that is literally designed for one of those "magic" crystals...geez.
What was that other one from the exodus from the jailbait shit that ended up devolving into a cesspool of racism and sexism? That one was a wild ride. It's almost like people with certain libertarian and conservative type values are all shitheads lol.
Was that voat? That one was initially promising, then almost immediately went to shit as all the worst people from reddit went there.
That was it!!! I even made an account there then quickly realized as many others did that the people who were exodusing Reddit were better off gone haha.