• reddwarf@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been seeing this a lot from instances like hexbear and lemmygrad and my take is either cult members, paid trolls, brainwashed persons prone to pavlovian responses, or all of the above.

    I just wish that as a user I could block instances.

    • Menachem@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s definitely all of the above.

      Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they’re less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t unique to the far-left, though. It’s a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

      It’s rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

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        1 year ago

        Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

        The inference here is that both views are of equivalent merit which is very much not true. This idea is called The Paradox of Tolerance. If a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant.

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          1 year ago

          Except… That’s not what democracy relies on. Democracy relies on discourse of views, even if they are unpopular. Tolerating only the prevailing opinion isn’t a democracy, it’s an autocracy.

      • reddwarf@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        I would not call them far left tbh. There’s something else about them that irks me. It honestly feels more North Korean to me and that ain’t left by any stretch of the imagination. It seems to be more authoritarian minded.