So he’s a shill or just as dumb as I assume most libertarian voters are. Tear down the government and what do you get? Billion-dollar corporations with a lengthy history of fucking over laborers, buying out or squashing start-up competitors, and rearranging assets to avoid paying restitution to customers they straight up killed. Yeah, real utopia that sounds like.
It never occurred to OP that you might be referring to the Libertarian in OP’s article that’s dropping out of the race in CD8 to endorse the Republican to avoid spoiling it to the Democrat. I find that shit funny…
You are right, that did not occur to me because he mentioned “shill” and that term is usually used for online users (in my experience).
But yes, you’re right, it could be that the person I responded to was not talking about me! I’ll edit my response to incorporate this feedback. Thank you!
So he’s a shill or just as dumb as I assume most libertarian voters are.
I’m not a libertarian though. I’m actually a socialist. In fact, I created and mod a socialist community here on Lemmy.world.
I didn’t write the article. I just posted it. Not sure why you think that makes me a libertarian. If you have a problem with the article or if you think it’s incorrect, please write to the news org or the editor of the news org.
I’ve only posted it. I had no say in it’s creation. Please refer to the disclaimer I posted regarding the article. Thank you!
EDIT: Someone has posted that the OP was not referring to me, but someone in the article. So my bad! I’ll keep my comment here for reference tho!
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Tear down the government and what do you get? Billion-dollar corporations with a lengthy history of fucking over laborers
Well, to be honest, that seems to be exactly what the current duopoly is doing too.
And a weaker government won’t make any of that better.
I’m not libertarian, but I personally don’t feel having someone outside the current duopoly would make the government weaker. I respect and support your right to your opinion, I just don’t agree with it.
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To save you all some time:
I posted an article that’s already widely available on a much bigger platform than Lemmy. I didn’t write it or create the content. It’s already out there for anyone to see, so all I did was share it here for discussion. If you disagree with the article itself, that’s fine, but calling for it to be censored or accusing me of pushing an agenda simply because it’s not what you want to read is misguided and lazy. Open debate requires different perspectives, not shutting down content you don’t like.
It’s not my job to convince you that I’m not a Republican, that I don’t live in Russia, or that despite posting hundreds of socialist articles to the socialist community, I’m somehow not a socialist. If that’s what you want to believe, cool, then go ahead and think that. Not my problem. :)
If you’re getting worked up over a news article I didn’t even write, that’s on you. Be mad if you want, but I’m under no obligation to prove anything to you. I’ll share my opinion, and you can take it or leave it. Either way, not my problem.
In the past, when I’ve tried to defend myself, people accuse me of not listening. If I stay quiet, they take it as guilt.
Here’s the deal: I’m still going to post what I want in this community because what I’m posting fits within the theme and guidelines of this community which celebrates diversity of thought and opinion.
So, go ahead and expect me to copy and paste this comment into the many, many arguments you’re going to try and start. Whether you believe me or not, I don’t have to prove anything to you. I’ll share my opinion, and you can take it or leave it. Not my problem. :)
What are you on about? No body was in here saying anything?
Take a look at the thread again. Apparently, my disclaimer didn’t work after very well. The comments so far are people throwing baseless accusations at me. lol
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my disclaimer didn’t work after very well
Yeah, probably 1,000 other people’s fault that you’re catching flak. Obviously couldn’t be yours.
I’m not sure what that means. But maybe you could focus on the content of the article that I posted. That is what this comment thread is here for. Please remain civil if you would like to interact with me. Thank you!
No.
No.
Ok, but it seems really odd that you are in a comment thread about a news article posted, yet you don’t wanna talk about the article. Seems kinda strange to me, but ok…
The only feedback you’re getting is from people who don’t like what you’re doing. I’m sure they’re all wrong, of course you couldn’t be. Impossible.
No. All your giant screed and persecution complex did was ensure that no one was talking about the article.
All your giant screed and persecution complex did was ensure that no one was talking about the article.
Actually, I’ve repeatedly asked people to focus on discussing the content of the articles moving forward. And even put a disclaimer up when I posted the article.
Some, however, are refusing to refrain from personal attacks. That’s not a persecution complex–that’s simple fact. Feel free to read the posts.
But I’ll keep asking for people to concentrate on the article posted. Thank you!
No body was in here saying anything?
Yeah, as a RESULT of me putting the disclaimer. Feel free to check out my post history, friend. PLENTY of people have had a lot to say about me, just because I post an article.
Hopefully this disclaimer helps people to calm down a bit. EDIT: It didn’t help.
No your account is brand new and has shit loads of activity for reasons besides people knowing those reasons and calling you on it. Everyone here knows what I’m saying but in a fucked up twist of irony, calling out this behavior is against rules.
What behavior are you referring to? You mean me posting an article that’s already widely available on a much bigger platform than Lemmy? One that I didn’t write it or create? It’s already out there for anyone to see, so all I did was share it here for discussion. If you disagree with the article itself, that’s fine, but calling for it to be censored or accusing me of pushing an agenda simply because it’s not what you want to read is misguided and lazy. Open debate requires different perspectives, not shutting down content you don’t like.
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Those words don’t seem to mean what you think they do. Yet you copy paste them ad nauseum
ShUtTiNg DoWn DeBatE Those words don’t seem to mean what you think they do.
They mean exactly what I think they do.
I don’t write the news, friend. I just post it. You’re typing is still a little off tho with that strange uppercase/lowercase thing you have going on. I do hope you are ok.
Please contact the news org if you find inaccuracies in the article. Or contact the mods if you feel the article has been posted to the wrong community. Thank you!
No one cares what you wrote on any news website. And you know that. Now go on about AI girlfriends again. Because that’s a thing.
So mods have decided to let this piece of work persist with their mission eh?
Eeeyep…and there’s nothing we can do except be ‘civil’ to them.
Pitiful.
Have you seen the modlog for this person? Completely different writing style, different bizarre fixations, and constant bans are in their past. Truly a bizarre case.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=9454261
We all wear different faces and exhibit different behaviours in different places, so I’m not surprised with this. This forum’s moderators protect this user, so the best you can really do is either take the bullet for the team and try to engage them with cold, hard logic, or just downvote and move on. This guy’s trying to get Trump elected. That’s all we need to say.
They apparently went a tear one day ranting about losers with AI girlfriends, as though that is a thing period.
This guy’s trying to get Trump elected.
No doubt about that.
Japan does have a thing going on with AI girlfriends, as well as other alternatives to dating. I’ve also heard that it’s a thing with some in the Nerd community. I can understand why. Relationships are hard. Agreeing to share your life with a chick (or dude) is hard, requires lots of communication skills and some extra dose of humility. I can see why AI dates are more fun. The AI just knows how to string words together in a way dating has been done over history, in a way that doesn’t involve the AI’s hopes and dreams (which they don’t have). I can see plenty of room to look at that and think it’s a bit crazy. Heck, I think that’s a bit strange. Then I shrug and go back to my RL wife and my day to day concerns and let people have their AI BFs or GFs and let it be. I got much more important things in my life to worry about…such as ensuring my wife isn’t ground under the bootheel of oppression because the Dems aren’t doing exactly what some whiny commentor on Lemmy wants them to do.
No doubt about that.
And this is why we need to work and work hard to ensure that BS like ‘Dems no better than Reps’ gets shut down every time it rears its ugly, stupid head on here (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Being civil and being nice are two completely different things, luckily enough.
So we all get to copy paste a wall of text on every article now? That’s allowed?
