Words to be countered with words only when a person speaks in a good faith and is ready to listen. Thats almost never the case in the internet, unless you are in some low pop group chat where people value your personal opinion. Thats not a lemmy format, we are too numerous. I'm basically nobody to you, why my opinion even matters?

.ml is not speaking in a good faith, in fact they ban opposing opinions. Its red fash propaganda platform. Block is the way.

Well, the tankie instances very loudly advocate in defense of a terrorist state that is in fact attempting to end my life and life of every person in my country. Is that direct enough for you or am I not passing your purity test?

Yes driving "opinions" underground has a great track record of lessening their impact, especially when they aren't true.

Look the world is complex, hitler didn't kill a single person himself but his words certainly lead to death.

A lie travels way faster than the truth, we know for a fact that the more acceptable hate speech becomes the more likely real life violence will become.

So words lead to concentration camps in the US and now where is the action against the action that you speak of?

Lefties always make tge stake of believing rightwingers are completely sincere when they speak when in fact they don't really care about the truth and entertaining them often serves only one purpose, getting their message out there.

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