• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Had a very long argument on here with some “leftist” several months back where they were trying to argue voting does nothing and makes you complicit with the genocide in Gaza, but during the argument they conceded that republicans had a much more extreme on Gaza as well as were doing worse things to citizens than any democrat, and that voting doesn’t stop you from doing any other kind of activists, but they still just doubled down on “voting bad”

    Genuinely insane

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      5 days ago

      They boil down to:

      1. Paid trolls
      2. Genuinely mentally ill people whose decision making centers are broken

      Either way the solution is not to engage with them in anyway. You will not convince them to be reasonable and your energy is better spent elsewhere.

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            4 days ago

            Haha, the paid trolls are much more convincing and I’ve noticed a lot more sophisticated propaganda on the fediverse. Regular Bots are probably in higher abundance on meta and Reddit and other big tech social media platforms.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned from community
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        4 days ago

        I knew a guy who daily stared into the sun for a few seconds.

        He claimed to vote and tried to get me not to. I think he was either a secret Nazi or a secret superalcoholic or both.