• Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    The voters are stupid, all they see is “america first fuck yeah!” They don’t understand or care about the consequences

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      11 hours ago

      Had a nice long chat with a customer at work about what all she’s growing, how she’s doing it. Talked about cars and what her and my wife drive, how well they worked out. Very pleasant.

      As she was breaking off the conversation she said, “And we’re taking America back! Isn’t that great! We’re taking it back!”

      I had no idea how to reply, strange for me. Taking what back from who and how and what the fuck does that even mean?

      Yes. They’re that dumb and they’ll keep being dumb until the consequences hit them in the face. Personally.

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        19 hours ago

        In what universe are MAGA less censorious? Have you looked at their subreddit? they LOVE censorship.

        Just because the left tells you to stop being an asshole to minorities that doesn’t mean censorship. It means you should stop being an asshole to minorities.

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          11 hours ago

          Lemmy is the most censor happy media I’ve ever engaged in. Sure, we can cherry pick subs like /r/conservative, /r/latestagecapitalism, /r/pyongyang, etc., but my overall experience with lemmy has proven quite the echo chamber.

          Look at our (dead) /c/conservative comm. Nothing much crazy there, certainly nothing hateful or bigoted. Blasted into the sun. Hell, there were many articles and posts that deserved thought and comment. Nope. Straight into the sun. Even a brand new post, with no politics in the headline, downvoted at birth. I swear there were people patrolling and downvoting every item they saw.

          But no, lemmy’s too smart to fall for that horseshit! For those that agree, let me point you to an old friend of mine:

          “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

          ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

          That’s the most famous line, but y’all should read the whole book. Short as can be, yet packed with wisdom as to how to fight, and mostly, how avoid fighting and still win.

          Tellingly, the last and most important chapter is “The Use of Spies”. But you guys are too smart to listen to the other side, let alone spy on them. Keep winning?

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            8 hours ago

            Spending time reading, and arguing, with idiots online is a complete waste of time and energy.

            Why am I doing it at the moment? Laid up with a bad back. Literally can’t do anything else.

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            8 hours ago

            Your account of censorship densities means very little to me. You are an enemy asset who doesn’t realize that “ya’ll” immediately makes me tune out the bulk of what you said. As in, I’m not even going to skim any more of it.

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          18 hours ago

          elon is maga and on x everyone can post all the stuff they want. i tried it myself by posting far right and far left things, none was deleted, expect hate. on bluesky and reddit they deleted the far left stuff.

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            11 hours ago

            It’s just history. That’s all we’re seeing. This shit unfolds over and over again, just to a slightly different tune.

            Nah. There probably isn’t a single GOP fascist out there, at least to their own minds. They’re just going with what makes sense, gets them power. Unfortunately we’re at a time where fascism is what gets them power.