Then he who has the biggest wallet will win every debate by extension. Leftist by and large have tiny wallets by the way. Ain't no millionaires in ANTIFA and socialism only benefits the poor.
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If you abuse the flagging system on this platform to silence someone you don't like or disagree with.
For sure, which is why I will do what I can. Bottom up, grassroots style political campaigns are always the most truthful and successful in the long term, hate and division are only successful in the short term.
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Then why are you pro division through your ideas and practices? Censorship causes division, which then leads to echo chambers, which leads to extremism.
Also the context in this thread is not about the left having power. The left will never have power on a free market platform like this. This time it was the rich abusing the rich. This was multiple rich people... And ultimately what I saw amounted to basically a black man being told "we don't like yer kind round dese parts" ....
Yeah, this kind of sucks and if I keep seeing this kind of stuff its going to worry me about the future of the platform. I hope steemit 2.0 doesn't even have a flagging feature.
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I believe that there should be no tolerance for the intolerant. Pure tolerance allows for paradoxical belief structures that lead to fascism (see: nazi germany, saudi arabia, turkey). Hating minorities and the poor is fundamentally irrational and those beliefs should not be allowed to spread. It is not in anyone's best interest to tolerate hate speech (buzzword ik ik) on any platform. When I say tolerate, I mean "grit your teeth and deal with it", I don't mean we should remove posts, kick people away, etc. I mean we should make sure they know that we know that they are some real fucked up motherfuckers.
I definitely think the left can have power on steemit, it's just a matter of people joining the platform. Not any time soon, but if steemit does become successful in, say, 5-10 years, I think the distribution of righteous versus hateful will be a lot less one-sided.
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Zero tolerance for zero tolerance doesn't even make sense at all. That's cognitive dissonance. You have zero tolerance for people who have zero tolerance. If this made sense you would cause a tolerance singularity lol... Its impossible to have a principled stance on that kind of logic. You have to have double standards for the people you hate in order to make that kind of rhetoric stick at all. Which makes you identical to them. Which means you will never win and centrists will brow beat you infinitely while you lose elections until you give up.
You either allow everything or you are intolerant. Period. There is no middle ground here.
Everyone will be sucked into libertarian or right leaning mindsets. The left will have an insanely difficult time keeping socialist ideals in a crypto space. The complexity of taxation alone will knock most people out of this idea right away. Being forced to pay taxes because you killed an orc and got a sword or captured a valuable pet in an MMO will basically cause extreme backlash.
But on top of that, the only people who want socialism are people who benefit most from it, and those kinds of people usually don't have skills or the tools to obtain crypto in the first place. Mob mentality will fail against whales who will pretty much dominate the space.
I am expecting the overton window to slide really far to the right. The next generation only know leftists as a bunch of morally challenged busy bodies. Its not cool to be a leftist.
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Nah, you're misunderstanding the point. Attacking bad ideas is precisely how discourse works. If everyone said their piece and never interacted with others who disagree, then we enter a weird shouting match with no real gains. People with objectively bad opinions like "kill all black people" do not deserve a platform where they can say that without refutation.
The Left is having a great political resurgence in America lately, so many progressive politicians are beating out corporate hacks and it's awesome. Can't wait 'til November.
The thing that's awesome about Steemit is that you can start blogging and discussions without any entry fees, hence why I do think the population will equalize in the future (ez signups anyone?).
The overton window is already so far right that we have establishment """""""""liberals"""""""" praising John McCain for being a """"""hero"""""" on mainstream media. That shit is going away really soon, and the far-right imperialist fascist government structure we have today won't survive too long.
As far as crypto-spaces go, I do think liberatrian values are great and I endorse them for sure, this stuff, for now, is not something that should be taxed or interfered with by any government bodies IMO. Ludicrous notions tbh. But society as a whole and crypto are very very far from being one in the same (if it ever happens lol)
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You have to use better ideas or the attack is only going to empower them.
Then why empower them by not attacking their ideas correctly? Words are not violence.
The left are floundering massively.
Its the left that are for big government and central planning. Socialism is central planning. It will have to be enforced at gun point using violence otherwise nobody would pay.
I think you have been brainwashed a lot into thinking that the right is evil when in reality a political party should be agnostic in terms of morality. A different means to an end.
That is the right wing agenda btw...
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Cyberdemon flagged down a bunch of my comments that had nothing to do with right wing rhetoric, purely because she's biased and hateful against me. The downvotes were reversed(and I was muted instead) when a bunch of people complained about it, but it just goes to show that you can't trust this kind of person to control their emotions if you give them that kind of power.
The comments in specific were on her blog about alex jones getting deplatformed, I talked about corporations having too much control and abusing their power, not in pursuit of either left or right wing values, but for money. Which is why you can't trust them to have your back, because they'll turn on you when it's convenient.
This was downvoted purely because we broke up from being friends, then I made a bunch of posts mocking the downvote and those were downvoted too. I was just genuinely trying to provide some actual discussion, but I guess that's not good enough?
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