zephyreks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except... That's not what democracy relies on. Democracy relies on discourse of views, even if they are unpopular. Tolerating only the prevailing opinion isn't a democracy, it's an autocracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

This isn't unique to the far-left, though. It's a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

It's rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Nazi wannabes with 13% of the vote...

I mean, it's not like China is only working with AfB. They recently invited School to Beijing.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

I mean... It's not like there's not a standing invitation for Germany's current government. Is building diplomatic ties not permissible if the party isn't currently in power?

Better fucking tell the Republicans to get out of Canadian politics, then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Have you never learned about primary sources? No competent scientific reference format asks for pages except for books (of which these aren't) and papers within conference proceedings (of which these also aren't).

Still waiting for my 2015 source...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gender pronouns exist mostly because our society ties so many societal norms to gender. If people weren't sexist animals, it wouldn't really be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.

You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy.ca is the superior instance and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The entire principle of reasonability lies on accepting that other interpretations of facts exist. Removing those who question the prevailing interpretation is harmful for democracy, harmful for journalism, and harmful for freedom of speech.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So... It's Lemmy's problem for not exposing control over emoji size? Sounds like a feature that should be pretty easy to add.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (137 children)

Is creating echo chambers really desirable in our current political climate? Democracy is built on a foundation of free and open discourse, not in censoring opinions that we don't agree with. All that does is polarize and radicalize people even more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone on Wednesday"

The article says ADIZ, not airspace.

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