• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t downvote you because you upset me, and I want you ot of my sight. Blocking, is for that.

    I downvoted you, because that comment was hot take trash.

    Totalitarian? Would you accuse the voters of a winning political party of unethical behaviour?

    What a joke. Democracy must feel so unfair, when you’re losing.

    • Arcaneslime@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I have no dog in this fight at hand, however this quote got me to thinking:

      What a joke. Democracy must feel so unfair, when you’re losing.

      Yeah, you’re right. It highlights the fact that Democracy at the end of the day is just mob rule, where 51% of voters could (in theory) vote to kill, silence, or otherwise deprive the rights of the other 49%.

      As for free speech issues, my thoughts are that driving them underground to fester and grow out of sight is good for “out of sight out of mind,” but in reality it strengthens their hold over their members through their own persecution complex and allows them a platform where their ideals go unchecked and unchallenged until it’s too late, they already believe it with conviction enough to spread it to other sites, which then they get “persecuted” for (in their eyes) and driven right back to the arms of the people who are manipulating them into these positions to begin with who say “see? We told you everyone was against us!”

      Kinda like just letting mold grow in a drippy sink, you can wipe off the outside of the faucet and make it look pretty but the mold is still there in the pipes.