• Mango@lemmy.world
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    That sounds like what I was told in school up here in Ohio. People are in here with a chip on their shoulder downvoting you into oblivion because Lemmy is an echo chamber and doesn’t care to actually be correct so long as their tribe wins.

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      What’s crazy is people always act like I’m defending the South when it comes up.

      Both sides were shittier than people think.

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        I’m glad to see other people who would rather be correct than please the room, purely for the sake of not crippling their position through dishonesty.

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      Lemmy is such a fucking echo chamber it makes Reddit look like a utopia of fair and balanced discourse. God forbid you stray even 0.1% off the path determined by the hivemind and you get pounded with downvotes like it is Gaza.

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        Yeah, I’ve noticed. They’re all team players here with no eyes on the ball, just the same as their opposition. I tend to agree with more of their desires and ethics than Republicans, but they all operate the same. Neither party will ever produce honest conclusions.

        Do you know a better place? I really wanna bug out. I was invited to Mensa before, but I turned them down because it sounded like a circlejerk before I ever heard the word circlejerk. They’ve gotta be better than this though.

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          I had friends in Mensa, it is the usual academic wank fest of sycophants licking each others’ arses, as long as you toe the line.

          I’m not even asking for amazing discourse, just some place which isn’t a complete and utter echo chamber like this shit hole. And I’m not talking of the communities known to contain nutters. Even Reddit was honestly far better but fuck spez and all that.

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              Don’t give up hope brother, nothing is ever permanent.

              edit: not sure who is going around down voting you, think you have an admirer

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                Just gender people who wanna have gender give them advantages without saying it means something.

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                  ah, the nuts that have taken over the nuthouse. not to worry, it only means you’re in good company!

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      That sounds like what I was told in school up here in Ohio.

      Sorry… you’re saying that makes it true? That’s terrible reasoning. You probably were taught all kinds of things about drugs in Ohio which were complete lies.

      You were also probably given a far rosier picture of American history than you should have been. Or were you taught, if you were taught about her at all, that Sally Hemmings loved Jefferson and wanted to be with him despite the fact that he never actually released her from slavery, suggesting he knew better. And despite the fact that even if the slave loves you, you still probably aren’t giving the slave the choice to say no when you want sex, what with them being a slave.

      But I know I sure wasn’t taught that Jefferson raped his slave that he paraded around as his mistress in my grade school.

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        Calm your tits, sir. History has always been my least trusted subject. It’s written by the victors after all.

        What are you on about with drugs? Who tf is Sally Hemmings and why should I care?

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            What the fuck can I do about long dead guy and his long dead mistress? Shit’s over with. Focus on today.

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              You can remember her. Like you can remember other people who were part of the black history of America.

              Or are you saying black history isn’t important?

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                I’m saying history isn’t important. Don’t fuckin race bait me. I live in the now.

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                  This is what you said after I tried to tell you who Sally Hemmings was:

                  What the fuck can I do about long dead guy and his long dead mistress? Shit’s over with. Focus on today.

                  So it sure sounds like you’re saying history isn’t important. Living in the now when you don’t know the history is how past mistakes are repeated.