Thank you so much!!!

I couldn’t have said it any better. ✊🏽

And that is a wonderful thing. Use the town square analogy and you’ll see that I’m not against THAT. I’m against victory laps advertising the blinders over a whole instance.

I know all of that, my friend. Not sure how it seemed like I didn’t. namaste

Insult me all you want. You didn’t change my mind.

Ps. Look at the rest of the discussions I am having with people. It seems the tone of this particular thread in the conversation is destined for toxicity because you’re not ready to admit the ugly truth about your perspective.

I see nothing wrong with it. But let’s not pretend that it is some badge of honor. We should be ashamed/disappointed that we were forced to censor our feeds rather than finding some better solution to the disgusting Nazi toxicity encroaching on our minds.

I’ve heard the Nazi bar analogy a lot and I can see why people say it. But I have made so much more progress with conservatives when I actually talk to them than when I blindly shut them out. I guess it’s just the tendency of perpetually online anonymous people to get ugly beyond what they would be brazen enough to do without anonymity.

Yeah because it shuts out everyone on that instance.

I’m happy this post isn’t from an instance admin, deciding that their users aren’t allowed to see ANYTHING that originated on an instance that they deem unsavory. I’m just disappointed in OP thinking that shutting all people out from a particular instance regardless of their actions is an act worthy of a victory lap, talking about how great the fediverse is for ignoring people.

Also: Just because I am an anarchist doesn’t mean I have to march in lockstep with what you expect an anarchist to do and say. This is the very crux of my point: that opinions vary wildly and shutting out your ability to even see those opinions is a negative thing for society as a whole.

I’m a big fan of that option. Did you think I’d be against it? 🤔

I hear they drink a lot of water too. I think we should give up water to own the nazi’s.

Here’s a big hug for you, intellectually honest fediverse user. 😊

Good point! You’re right. My meme is more to poke fun at the victory lap the user decided to take here to try get a high five for putting on blinders.

A well-executed rebuttal.

They have that luxury.

Freedom of speech is an “alt-right” talking point?!?!?!

Are you listening to yourself?

To illustrate my point: I heard Elon is against the obvious CIA front organization USAID so I 100% guarantee you’re now pro CIA.

Rachel Maddow: if you castrate yourself the alt-right will crumble overnight.
You: Where’s the knife?

🤣

Actually……

If I were a true hexbear user, I’d be glad to be defederated from lemmy.world. But I’m not.

I think that defederation is a bad idea. That’s why I joined an instance with a relatively hands-off approach to moderation.

You see, I’m an anarchist. I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police. I am philosophically opposed to whole instances making the call to defederate from another no matter how Nazi or capitalist that instance is.

So block the communities instead of the ENTIRE INSTANCE.

Smug libs keep shutting out their own neighbors without realizing the disastrous effects of siloing large swaths pf vulnerable people from reaching ANYONE. Tribalism has had such a terrible effect on the world yet I see smug otherwise very intelligent people climbing over one another to engage in it.

IMO, the only way to stop ignorance and hate is to actually know people from MANY walks of life and face those differences head on. If you dismiss every last one of them wholesale at the slightest sign of differences, you are intellectually weak and deserve the dystopian future we are all being herded and astroturfed into.

I strenuously object to your characterization of Demi’s performance in A Few Good Men.