• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    8 hours ago

    When ‘reasonable’ people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?

    Leaving a toxic environment that also is a privacy and advertising nightmare will always be an excellent personal choice.

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        8 hours ago

        I believe having a good, healthy personal foundation allows people to make better choices for their communities.

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        7 hours ago

        It isn’t worth it. At least for me at this point. When you are dealing with the ineptitude of the simple-minded masses—which is either bandied at best or they are totally blinded by hatred from vacuuming up disinformation without an iota of effort to fact-check anything—the best hope is face-to-face discourse. But even then you are unlikely to change most peoples’ minds that they have been deluded and taken for a ride—especially the older they are. Which is sad and frankly disturbing. One of the most disgusting things to me is a myopic person who is so intransigent, that they can’t for a moment believe they might be mistaken about something.

        From looking at the line I was in voting, it’s no wonder this happened: these simple-minded geriatrics turned out in droves for their dictator.

        GOP: Geriatrics for an Orwellian Power