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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I keep thinking about this. I see people in pretty much any news or political sub that has enough people to reach r/all, and I see them cheering on mandates for unvaxxed, getting unvaxxed to lose their jobs, cheering on the deaths of the unvaxxed, and they are all incredibly smug while doing so. I don't think they have even thought once that if you push a group hard enough, and that group has such different ideals than you about freedom and they own a lot of guns, they might secede or decide to shoot everyone trying to keep them down. The thought of civil war over what they are pushing has never crossed their minds.
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