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I wish libs would stop pretending they support free speech
Nobody really supports free speech for their political enemies, but libs are the only ones sanctimonious to pretend they do
I saw one the other day talking about how the Nazis that recently rallied should be allowed to because the poster "fought and bled for this country so they could". Motherfucker, were you in WWII? No? Huh.
Also, that's never been the reason for a war or revolution.
Not even a little bit.
"You fought so Nazis could organize? What war, and what side were you on?"
Everyone loves to pretend they're open to debate. Nobody wants to admit to being closed minded. You need to be receptive with a well-rehersed rebuttal.
But this invites sea lioning, which everyone agrees is obnoxious. So the argument eventually becomes "I'm up for informed debate, but you're not engaging seriously."
That's where all this stuff ends, and it illustrates the limits of any discourse.
That opinion's validated in the federated instances when discussing politics by prima facie invalidating opinions from hexbear users as "trolls" or "tankies".
Do they pretend to support free speech for their enemies? Or do they pretend that the people they support free speech for are their enemies?
They sometimes jerk off to the "defend to the death your right to say it" quote from le epic times.
The Evelyn Beatrice Hall line, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”?
Disapproval is not opposition. That's absolutely pretence of enemy status.
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
Things I'm gonna have to start stealing
Getting libs banned? I think it's hilarious
Also, I love the idea of them being forsaken by their echo chamber and I love when their precious rules can be used to bite them in the ass. Yes, it's petty, but I don't care. I'm usually just standing in line somewhere or on break at work when I'm doing it
Hello fellow Lemmygrader.
What is TDS?
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Isn't that a Trump meme or what?
I've kinda gone back and forth on whether or not it's a useful term.
Chuds do use it. But it's a valid observation, libs tunnel vision on Trump to a huge degree. On the other hand, chuds usually suffer Trans Derangement Syndrome where they're so tunnel visioned on their transphobia they'd vote for politicians who hate them (see: Catholic Latines voting for republicans).
There's a couple of things CHUDs are right about. TDS and you shouldn't trust the media. The last one is for different reasons, but whatchagonnado?
Chuds being right for the wrong reasons, a romdramedy in three parts.
"A small well connected rich and powerful group has unaccountable and unchecked dominion over the rest of us!... but it's not the rich! Saying that would be gommunism vuvulzula!" 
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It's probably worth pointing out that chuds virtually never use it for valid observations, even when they're talking about people who genuinely are hyperfocused on Trump. When I see it used in Fox News comments, it's a near-meaningless term for all Trump criticism
That might be true but what do you expect from Fox News comments 
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I can see where you're coming from. I probably wouldn't say it outside of hexbear. The explanation of how I'm not a right wing nutjob would eclipse the usefulness of the word. And really, it's probably not worth engaging with people that "have TDS" because you will go nowhere. They have every thought terminating cliche you can think of at the ready.
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Maybe The Daily Show
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I got banned for saying billionaires shouldn't exist. I didn't even state execution, just that they shouldn't exist and that using force is a legit approach. Never bothered to make another account because the karma shit is so tedious lol, I'm happy that site is tanking ngl
Once in a while I make an account to follow some niche subs or to find mycology information. It always makes me wander back into /r/politics so I can make some libs heads explode though..eventually I get banned. The weird part is, I never call names, I never swear, I only make comments to counter stupid lib shit, and I get got every time.
o7 o7 o7
I'd almost guarantee there's more to this story.
Yeah, what was he wearing when he got banned? Was he in a rough part of the subreddit? Was he commenting at night alone?
Dunno why you'd think that when sitewide reddit bans are performed by AI with an absolutely massive error rate.
And if it's a subreddit ban it's absolutely 100% believable because more than half of us have had stupid fucking bans by mods for opposing libs. Even off reddit half of lemmy's lib instances have defederated us entirely purely because libs are so far fucking right they can't cope with hearing anything to their left.
If I remember correctly I got banned from Reddit for "misinformation" or something like that for debunking Adrian Zenz which is something you could literally do yourself right now. Unjustified bans based on vibes and not facts or actual rule-breaking behavior is pretty common on Reddit.
Reddit bans are distributed on a pure vibes basis. Whatever the mod is currently feeling goes. There's no second recourse, because the subs are too flooded the bad actors to sort out the grey cases. Everyone just makes new accounts anyway, so who cares?
When I modded the sub I configured the automod to delete 80% of gucci's (stupidpol founders) posts based on the last digit of the post/comment ID. That was funny
Based
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real redditor-adjacent comment there, homie
Well, you're from Lemmy, so you're automatically sus.
I'm sure we'll tease it out of you
tru tru
giving reddit even a little benefit of the doubt is always gonna be incorrect
Death to America
Why
Online discourse has gotten considerably worse since libs discovered whataboutism as a way to avoid examining any potential inconsistencies in their worldview
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
whataboutism is so funny because neither side will ever admit to using whataboutism but will always point it out against one another never ending game of tennis
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