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Today's sage advice (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

This is dumb as shit and sticking your head in the sand and creating an echo chamber because you can't deal with people having differing opinions from yours. I hate this shit, if its going to stay an open forum for the exchange of ideas we need to hear from everyone, including the dumbfucks and the trolls, else we risk creating these little bubbles where we are never challenged and get extremely susceptible to group think, manipulation, and extremism- exactly the things that breed the idiots you can't tolerate.

Grow a fucking spine instead of fasttracking the Internet into fucking Black Mirror episode.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The post doesn't claim you should block people that disagree with you, but insufferable people that bring the conversation down with insult and rage baits.

    Like you are doing right now.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well the post states you should block "fools" and a lot of people will consider people who disagree with them to be fools, which will create the echo chamber

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I think these two things are not mutually exclusive.

    There are people who should not (but unfortunately do) engage with harmful ideas online.

    The best case scenario is these people shout into the void, and nobody takes them seriously.

    More often than not, these people lack the epistemology to engage in civil disagreement.

    The worst case scenario is these people vindicate the bigots through weak arguments, meltdowns, and fallacies, which get screenshot / clipped / shared to other bigots.

    This isn't an argument for suggesting people should shut up; I would like for people to be better trained in critical thinking. That's not always possible though, and some people need to step off the highway.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    There are extremely mentally unstable people all over the internet, here included. I don’t care to include their sentiments because it never goes well. So; you keep doing what you’re doing- but it doesn’t deserve this much ire. It’s not about creating an echo chamber. If I blocked more people maybe I would come on here more often.

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