Just had a convo with someone, now blocked, which has really irritated me. Illustrates the kind of bad faith tribalism and holier than thou name calling which is this site at its worst. Went like this 1/?
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Them: "You support fascists. Here is a screenshot of tweet with you agreeing with a Lega senator" Me: "That tweet just a link to a paper by someone else entirely, which is clearly what I am supporting. And the guy wasn't an LN senator anyway then, he was an obscure economist...."
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Them: "No, you tweeted a fascist. You support fascists. You *are* a fascist." No attempt to engage or respond to what I said, just frantic arm waving trying to get people to back his utterly disingenuous spin on one tweet taken out of context. So toxic and destructive.
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