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@benroyce Your “principles” have you condemning both Hutus and Tutsis.

That’s because they are not principles at all, only vague notions. Aka talk is cheap.

Read a book for once in your life?

@jamesmarshall @8124

i have it on good information that James hangs his toilet paper the wrong way

lying accusations and weak desperate smears because of a psychological block on accepting reality is an obvious, weak, cringe, and hilarious game

all 8124 is doing here is providing an object lesson on a simple psychological trap, something thinking people need to avoid in life

(unfortunately a lot of dimwit fools fall into this simpleton pattern in this world)

@8124

oh yeah, it's far better to support hutus mass murdering tutsis or tutsis mass murdering hutus

what we do, those who are moral, is support hutus and tutsis

and we condemn those hutus talking mass murder and those tutsis talking mass murder

welcome to principles, genocide apologist

oh 8124? hello? anyone home?

you're telling on yourself, weak ass shill

@benroyce @8124 some people dwell in a perpetual state of ignorant yet confident anger, and retreat at the first sign of facts.

@jamesmarshall @8124

unfortunately we are drowning in such people

@8124 @jamesmarshall

desperate deflecting lies from the likud bigot

par for the course

obvious and boring

"no, u!" "no, u!" "no, u!" ad nauseum

@benroyce how are you not blocking the genocide deniers? It's far more effective than arguing with them, because that's giving them what they really want: attention.

@benroyce @jamesmarshall @8124 The working definition of token in this context seems to be when someone in the in-group goes off-message.

@lori @benroyce @8124 it occurred to me that maybe he meant that Lemkin was my "token Jew", and that Lemkin is not representative of "real Jews". Or something like that. I seldom hear the word "tokenism" myself.

@ClariNerd

on the contrary i don't block anyone (except for those demented few who follow you around to start off topic fights, the creepy stalkers)

what i do is engage and mock trolls

this is not emotional this is cold and tactical

i'm enraging them and fishing for actionable content to report them and get their account suspended

i've gotten rid of many vatnik accounts this way. i relish finding more

granted my approach is not for everyone

but do not mistake who i am and what i'm doing

@benroyce @ClariNerd important job nevertheless.

@kali @ClariNerd

having watched how MAGA rose i believe "polite society" "high road" types who react to arguing with trolls with disgust to be part of the problem

blocking doesn't get rid of bigots and vatniks. you just don't see them

they continue to spread their poison

i say fight them

of course that stance isn't for everyone

but no one has the right to look down on us who bait, enrage, then report. and get trolls suspended

you who roll your eyes at us enjoy the fruits of our efforts

@benroyce @kali @ClariNerd
fight them... but also, let them fight themselves.

What if it were as simple as just pointing a mirror that showed them who they really were... with such precision that they don't realize what they're looking at is them?

@Netraven @kali @ClariNerd

absolutely

self-awareness is the most painful thing to them

@benroyce @kali @ClariNerd

Self-awareness is costly to everyone, or so I think, but it is painful to those who have rejected it altogether as a form of feedback.

@benroyce @kali @ClariNerd the problem with fighting them is nowadays, you don't know if you're wasting your time on an actual, red blooded cunt, or a bot. So first, you need to establish that, which in and of itself is annoying.

@Netraven @kali @ClariNerd

exactly so

we all have blind spots, no one is omnipotently self-aware

but there remains a core competency we all must have

or otherwise we're on the road to ignorance and indecency in desperate ego defense, just like MAGA

but also these sort of people who go to a club, enjoy the club, then clutch their pearls in horror when a bouncer has to get get physical with some asshole ruining the vibe of the club

you enjoy the club. so you thank the bouncer

@macacator @benroyce @kali it's a waste of time and energy. I'd rather focus my time and energy on things like helping my neighbors, volunteering at the soup kitchen, improving the lives of the vulnerable. That sort of thing.

@ClariNerd @macacator @kali

that's a perfectly valid approach

but even in the scenario you describe there will be someone trying to mess with your good efforts, and you need to fight back, or they ruin your efforts

so i'm not asking you to change who you are. i'm asking you to recognize your good efforts are sometimes dependent on behavior you are saying you can't agree with, but in reality you just don't realize sometimes it is necessary to allow you to continue doing good

@benroyce @kali @ClariNerd
blindness to our blind spots may be our saving grace. As perhaps it is ignorance toward our own fragility, and proximity to catastrophe, that allows us to have this conversation at this time.