growingentropy

With all due respect, I live in the Midwest and run with some rather blue-collar people in a completely blue, large city.

Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

The Care Bear Stare got him.

I’d rather miss some content (or rewind if possible) than hear an ad.

Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You’re brittle and shrill outside of it.

No idea. I installed a VPN on my router to get privacy. That’s all I ask.

I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.

Yes, absolutely. We should all be concerned with the source of our ideas and even our memes, as dumb of a concept as that is.

The repercussion to bad speech and ideas is inherent to the current paradigm of the internet: downvotes and ostracization.

Maybe they will wind up on their own forum saying despicable shit, but they were probably going to do that anyway. Bad ideas love a vacuum away from prying eyes and outsiders.

I’m just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.

This is how fascism starts. “We have to control speech for your own good” becomes “hateful speech comes from [insert group]” becomes “we have to stop them.”

We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don’t fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.

I don’t miss anything from Reddit, I’m just sad that some of the homogeneity of thought came over here to Lemmy.