• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Meh. I’ve learned some interesting things from some people I found a bit annoying.

    It’s how I’ve come from card-carrying Republican to more or less fitting the label “progressive.”

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      I think this is for people who are less “annoying” and more “actively lying and being bad faith.” If someone says the elections were stolen, vaccines cause autism, and liberals hate America, I have other things I would rather do than investigate every one of the infinite conspiracy theories that I already know many others have debunked. It’s essentially an exercise in bad faith rhetoric at that point, which is just so incredibly boring. I’ll look into a few to see the patterns of how they lie, and then I’m good.

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        1 hour ago

        That’s a very heavy lifting interpretation of the comic. It literally says “I don’t like this thing”. Not “this person is arguing in bad faith”. This is how echo chambers form, and lemmy is a textbook example of one.