'Actually'... That's just not the case in my experience. Expressing any opinion on politics here results in an immediate deluge of very bot-like arguments from a mix of Trumpers, blank profiles & right wing troll/bot accounts (and they so often begin with 'actually')
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Replying to @miracleofsound @Pawkeshup
If not bots, than many, many prepackaged talking points that you end up seeing 1,000 times in a month, which comes across as very bot-like so it’s becoming very hard to distinguish between the two.
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Replying to @hutchinson @miracleofsound
That comes from both sides. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen the wage gap or the vaccine myths tossed up in those arguments, to the point where you have to question if people have just lost the ability to think critically.
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Replying to @Pawkeshup @miracleofsound
I don’t like to entertain “both sides” debates. It implies a perfect 50/50 balance of right and wrong between right and left, which is simply untrue.
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Replying to @hutchinson @miracleofsound
Well, for most issues there are two sides, like it or not. I try to hear everyone's viewpoint and try to see their's even if I don't like how they see it. And no issue is black or white, but shades of gray are lost on a good number of people.
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Replying to @Pawkeshup @miracleofsound
Right but you’re saying it’s my job as an informed citizen to entertain ideas that are absolute nonsense for the sake of balance. What possible value could “balance” have if it ignores facts or common sense? I’m supposed to listen to someone tell me that immigrants are dangerous?
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Replying to @hutchinson @miracleofsound
The moment you refuse to see where another person comes from is the moment you stop thinking critically. The entire reason freedom of speech is so important is to let ideas you hate be spoken so you can question them. When you stop that, the line of what is ridiculous moves.
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By refusing to hear anything, you lose perspective on where that line between an outrageous statement and something more tame is. I see it all the time online, people who have so denied the alternative to their views that it "triggers" them just to consider anyone else's view.
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Replying to @Pawkeshup @hutchinson
There's a big difference between 'Refusing to hear stuff' and 'Not paying attention to factually inaccurate deliberately misleading bullshit'. If you keep on spammin me on this, I'm gonna hav to mute or block & I don't like doing that
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Replying to @miracleofsound
The reply was for Hutch but you were in the replies. As you said "we're done" before because you chose to misunderstand my point, I'll try to ensure Hutch also untags you in replies.
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Yeah I'm opting out... this is already waaaay beyond my patience for a Twitter debate lol
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Replying to @miracleofsound
Apparently you've haven't seen Hutch of late. lol
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