I have long realized that reasoning with redditors has no purpose. No, expand that on people online in general. If you are stuck in an echo chamber long enough, you have zero problems doing the most incredible mental gymnastics. The internet will unironically be the end of western liberal democracy. We are regressing to ape like mental mindsets, our group can do nothing wrong, our group is always right, the other group is always wrong and only commit evil. Debate, compromises, talking to and understanding each other which Form the basis of our democracy are fading. Was uncle Ted a psycho? Yes. Was he despite his methods right at the end of the day? Looking at the internet probably yes.
Well anyway if you got here thanks for entertaining a Schizo. Feel free to insult me and call me paranoid in the comments, I probably deserve it.
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Yes it's very much fricked at least on Reddit itself. It's much safer to go along with the status quo which was the case in my experience. As someone outside the US, I unironically believed CNN 100% until the oppression olympics came over and I suddenly became the equivalent of an American straight White male.
I reckon only the straight White male experience will make people sit up and realise how illiberal things have actually become, so maybe those dumbasses will cause their own demise by slowly finding more groups of people to blame since blaming straight White males feels a tad passe at times.
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