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Oh my God how do y'all stand these people for more than a moment lmao. They take online posting so seriously. Everything's a matter of life or death civilizational collapse and scary foreign devils attempting to beguile our pure little minds away from glorious Western consensus.
Also if you're a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You're never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don't care. You're not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It's not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West's enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You've showing that you'll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you'll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn't go anywhere
Furthermore not even the political stuff, these people are insufferable nerds who should get stuffed into lockers while I point and laugh. I don't even understand the urge. If I got banned from a forum of genocide denying fascists, I'd simply go about my day no longer burdened by the ability to look at the opinions of a bunch of deranged fascist lunatics. If I were in a protracted conversation with someone online, upon discovery of a contentious opinion of theirs (genocide denial, bigotry, etc) I'd simply tell them I had sexual intercourse with their father and then I'd send an image of a pig shitting on its own balls. Then I'd never interact with that person again. Why do liberals believe they need to defend their honor online? Being on an internet forum at all makes you a little weird goblin (myself included), so just embrace it.
There's a reason the "dirtbag left" upsets liberals so much, by refusing to play their games, refusing to engage in the complex liberal ritual of dancing around a topic while never explicitly condemning it OR committing to it, it just breaks their brains, it makes them so mad that someone could actually stand for something, and not just empty token gestures, and not sacrifice their own morals in the sake of "civility" either. They hate it, because it is a reminder that they are not the inherently good people they think they are, and that liberalism is a path of failure and destruction, not centrist enlightenment.
I've been thinking about it, and honestly I'm not so sure this is always the case. There's definitely cases where being flippant and uncouth goes to our detriment, even when someone is engaging in bad faith. Like, it's one thing for the opponent to make a bad faith attack then do a rebuttal with a
at the end, and it's another to respond to their bad faith attack with nothing but emotes. If the context of the conversation can lend credence to their argument, the lack of a serious counterargument can speak volumes. The onlookers get the wrong message.
More concrete example: someone here says that it's a shame Al Qaeda seized control of Syria. Lemmitor comes and says Assad was using chemical weapons so regime change was justified. They get nothing but PPBs in response.
Will an onlooker have their beliefs about so called "tankies" challenged? Or did we just give them license to keep dismissing us? Wouldn't it be helpful if on top of being rude, we could be ruthless and actually thoroughly debunk their claims?
I miss how Egon would do this relentlessly, I think that kind of dunking is a lot better than (only) namecalling.
Edit: I checked the original thread this is referencing and nevermind, everyone did a good job of actually engaging in the conversation with good sources and solid points.
oh I should ask Lemmygrad about assad
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Oh, yeah, I didn't mean just "hurl insults until they go away" is effective, but treating their attitude and opinions with the respect it deserves is very effective. The dunk is an important part of that, and what I was thinking of. I haven't really seen any examples where a lib says something ignorant and the only responses are insults and PPB, that isn't just several lines deep in a comment chain already (where others have tried and failed to explain things to them.) Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it wasn't what I was thinking of, I was probably imagining the same scenario you do, where people call them out for their ignorance, attempt to educate them and refuse to coddle them.