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It's the intention that matters?
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Enough Musk Spam
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Yeah, but why do that when we can be sanctimoniously mean to others while feeling morally superior to everyone else?
Ideology built on pluralism and we're having debate about whether it's cool to be mean to people because they made a choice we don't like (with the fucking benefit of hindsight). Surely if we're mean to people it'll solve all our problems right???
Sorry clearly I'm no longer capable of engaging with people productively and should step away from the keyboard lol. I 100% agree. There are so many things worth our emotional energy. Bullying people and arguing why they deserve to be targeted maybe isn't one of them ๐๐๐
I want off this ride lol.
Over the last few decades (i'm an online oldie) I have watched as the conversation spaces changed broadly from "places where we engage with ideas and argue our values" to "places where we pretend to debate people we don't agree with for attention from our own side" to now, "places where we viciously rip out the throats of people in our own groups because it's so much easier to purity-test your kinsmen than it is to actually go try to change someone's mind."
This is kinda silly and sad on its own, it becomes horrifying when you realize that most of these people, left and right, have this idea that they're going to someday "win" and that "someone is going to do something." And as a result don't ever pause to think about the fact that even if everything went our way tomorrow, we would still have to live next to millions of people who don't agree with you and nothing is going to end unless we actually do hard things like talk to people we've been taught to hate.