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Cake day: December 11th, 2023

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  • “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    -Jean-Paul Sartre









  • No, you complained about me reporting it at all. If your were just complaining about unequal moderation, you would have taken it up with the moderator, who I have no control of, you would not have accused me of “trying to shut down discussion when I started to lose” or whatever.

    As I said: sometimes having views and opinions vehemently challenged is fine

    Great, I agree; but are you actually willing to grant that right to people who disagree with you, because it doesn’t seem like it.

    and sometimes it’s enlightening how little pushback some assholes can take.

    Mmmm, it sure fucking is.












  • You get what you’ve given, I’m not going to pretend people acting in bad faith are actually being sincere, and I’m not going to treat people better than they treat me. Frankly this is the most annoying thing about liberals; they feel they can be as rude, bigoted, and willfully obtuse as they like, and then think everyone else has to be super nice to them.

    I’m going to insult white supremacist ultra-nationalists when I see them, and I don’t care if you don’t like that.

    I don’t assume that a person who disagrees with me on the internet is automatically a child white supremacist ultra-nationalist, which is what you did all over that thread and in others.

    I didn’t “assume” anything, I responded to they said.

    My comments that insulted you were removed.

    Some of them were, many of them were left behind.

    There’s a pattern there, if you can just take off your emotional blinders and see it.

    Right back at you, champ. Oh, but I forgot, liberals can never imagine that they might be the ones with emotional blinders.

    Tell me about how you inject nuance into a conversation?

    How do you?

    Also, a great example of why it’s not worth having good faith discussions with liberals, because they have a massive double standard and will just act disingenuous: notice how you complain about getting called a lib on lemmy, and when I respond that I get much worse on world, I get some lemmy.world child jumping in to throw insults? Why they fuck would I bother acting in good faith to you people when you will never do the same.