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I know. I'm probably going to quit after the most recent message. IDK, I wanted to try to talk some sense into the person, because it's important.
Maybe they're a shill, or maybe sincerely think they're doing something good for progressives with that stance. Either way I feel like putting the counterargument out there is a good thing to do. But yeah now it's just a merry-go-round of back and forth.
I’m half tempted to just bail on Lemmy entirely. This place is so overrun with teenaged socialists that are determined to destroy what little chance democracy has just because they don’t understand what’s going on and chose to buy into MAGA propaganda.
You and me both 😃. I unsubscribed from a bunch of the tech subs and political subs because the rate of aggressive cluelessness was so unbearable. I do like the model that Lemmy supports, but I actually switched to mbin specifically because it's able to interact with Mastodon a lot more effectively, and my observation has been that the people on Mastodon are by and large about 10 times more sensible.
I love this description! It’s perfect.