So I replied to someone else with this but I figured it should be made its own tweet because it's something I've been shouting from the rooftops for a decade now and FINALLY people are starting to get it.
I'm squarely on the side of none of it (political speech, even the extreme views). If you notice the moment that you start banning political opinions extremism actually goes up. The reason is it creates further conflict, it doesn't stop them spreading their views, it pushes them into an echo chamber to where the only ones they have to speak to are eachother doubling down again and again on more and more extreme views. Also the whole "the elites want to censor us because -insert conspiracy here-" is STRENGTHENED if they then get banned for saying that. The ONLY way to counter conspiratorial nutjobs is to allow them to say what they want and then ARGUE THEM DOWN. If you make them look silly and everyone laughs at them it shames others who might have considered their views and deradicalizes them. People argue for diversity all the time but what about diversity of thought? Diversity of opinions? Diversity of ideas? The point of democracy is that all viewpoints clash until the ones that are tempered by the free marketplace of ideas rise to the top and the shit ones get pushed to the bottom. From the late 90s all the way to the mid 2010s we had that, and the more it's been eroded the more shit our society has become. Democracy is a system built on dissidents, if you ban one set of dissidents you are by definition destroying democracy.
@JooSilva551784@DidItMyWayYT@VULPlXIE the massive drop in player numbers heavily disagrees with your assessment but, to quote you. It's ok to be wrong.
@OneInTheStink_@DidItMyWayYT@xNanagi so, stating reality is bitterness? Dawntrail was and continues to be a failure, evercold is proof of this. Dawntrail was meant to be a multi-expansion storyline but it's been relegated to filler content and they are starting over with a new plotline because of how shit it was
@aero90@DidItMyWayYT@xNanagi but that doesn't explain endwalker which also had much higher numbers than dawntrail and came out post-pandemic. Your comment about selective perception is entirely projection considering right here you're doing selective perception ignoring EW as a datapoint
@mousyhex@MauLer93 Melanie should be trying to course correct him, if one of my friends was pulling the shitty things that jeremy is I'd try to intervene. Even if she just stayed quiet nobody would be angry at her but it's the fact she is encouraging and defending his behaviour that's objectionable
@SweetieSquad2@LiberalHivemind reform are more pure centre... Restore is centre right, then you have the Steve Laws position which is the actual right flank further than even Restore is willing to go.
@TheLawfulEvil@DidItMyWayYT@DaddyWarpig If anything bombing them makes things worse considering that gives NGOs an excuse to import a fuck tonne of them into your country as "refugees" why do you think Dearborn Michigan got so clogged with islamists? Or Lakewood new jersey got taken over by jewish benefit leeches?
@TheLawfulEvil@DidItMyWayYT@DaddyWarpig How is pointing out that war with iran goes against the interests of american people because it's causing a massive economic hit for no real benefit the equivalent of defending iran? Also yes they do a lot of rape. Afghanistan should have taught you bombing them doesn't stop that
@JamieCharlesEl1@DidItMyWayYT You can enjoy something while also admitting it's flawed....Endwalker throwing in dynamis and recontextualising a lot of things was a bit flawed and felt out of nowhere, I enjoyed the hell out of it though.
@JamieCharlesEl1@DidItMyWayYT Except you're not summoning a party of adventurers... You're creating simulacra of them which is literally explained in the plot. You call others tourists when you don't even read the fucking lore, you're bending over backwards to justify the unjustifiable.
@primordias95 @rhob81@GGore65002096@delmontyb If you don't believe me: https://t.co/4Dx52o1O5e go read the sources yourself. In here are a lot of first hand accounts from the people who were alive in nazi germany. If you claim to know better than they did then then admit you have no interest in reality or history.
@primordias95 @rhob81@GGore65002096@delmontyb I went to those places too, was taken there as part of a school trip for history class, you know where else I went? To the communist labour camps when I was in college. They look pretty fucking similar.
Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism are all branches of the same tree
@rhob81 @primordias95 @GGore65002096@delmontyb https://t.co/7L5ITTAOgP
I offer this as counter evidence pulling from historical sources and from not just hitler's words but his actions.
@primordias95 @DidItMyWayYT@delmontyb This is something I'm curious about too, you say "he said it himself" can you post the clip or post where he said that?
@ProjectLiberal "we can all see who has come to this place" yeah all the people you wanted to banish from the conversation to have your fucking echo chamber, you can't win so you have to run, hide, and ban your way to your forced "consensus"
@liunkaya@DidItMyWayYT@kazuhiranya because you are genuinely mentally retarded. You'd have to be damaged in order to find any value in whatever the fuck gooner bait your account is based around.
@keetgrandson @DidItMyWayYT@LojtnantLarsson it's funny how you crybaby bitches crash the fuck out then block the person you crashed out on as if that actually makes a point. That's just you throwing a tantrum then hiding like a fucking toddler, grow up you hopeless wretch.
@DidItMyWayYT@InfoGirl17@ShouldHaveCat What a fucking loser. Blocked me too. I hope this fucker doesn't have any cats, what a horrendous existence they must have.