This is an instance we have never federated making a defederation post about us. You can search the instances page, we’ve never linked with a kbin instance. we’ve never interacted with kbin users. we don’t even have to dunk on them for our posting power to overwhelm.
> I wouldn’t even mind the trolling and insincere arguments themselves, but having to see propaganda or misinformation while being unable to respond to it makes me feel pretty helpless (I mean, I could respond, but they would never see it). I think I might be happier without them.
Imagine being this much of a fucking loser
Liberalism takes hold in the human mind as a defense mechanism against feeling helpless.
We’re definitely triggering to most libs. Probably to a degree far worse than conservatives.
Imagine you have this highly idealized worldview that paints politics as a grand battle between good and evil. You aren’t content with the state of things, but shit wouldn’t be so bad if more people would just
. You want nothing more than for the right combination of candidates & slogans to appear to allow fixing things.
Then some fucking guy comes along and tells you the conditions in your perfect storm political scenario are entirely insufficient at achieving your goals. He says not only that your sole mechanism for exerting influence over the world is worthless, but also achieving your goals is dependent on subverting that mechanism entirely.
That must feel insanely uncomfortable. Virgin minds will ferociously resist accepting the helplessness without an alternative mechanism to provide that hope.
Hence why we must be Russians or crypto fash or something. Conceding any of our points means introducing those feelings of helplessness. It is simply safer for one’s ego to believe we’re incognito bad guys™ than accept that people who want the same ends don’t believe in the holy means.
That’d be like some non-Hogwarts wizard showing up in the final Harry Potter book, telling Harry that his ideology is bullshit and that the magic nazis will never stop returning while Harry’s a status quo magic cop, then shoving that liberal nerd aside and actually bringing magic to the people because magic eugenics is also a lie.
That’d be awesome.
“Hey you know how there’s three spells that are way more powerful than any other that our opponents have no problem using, maybe we should stop fighting with one arm tied behind our back”
gasps, pearl clutching
You reminded me I need to check out Reign of the Seven Spellblades because, at the very least, some people here might really like it. It earned points with me by pointedly centering a Hermione-like advocate for “hey, maybe wizards shouldn’t do slavery to magical creatures” and not having her be brushed aside so casually.
Buying their own bullshit.
They think they’re better than republicans to the point they don’t even really care about their opinions because they recognize they’re a bunch of bigots.
They also think they’re as “progressive as they come” so therefore they’re the best person.
So if there is somebody that actually is more progressive than them either thay aren’t a faultless moral paragon, or thenother people are lying.
We see the level of self reflection they’re capable of.
Maximum left is when you want Nancy Pelosi presiding over 400+ democrats in the house really really really badly.
If you want anything other than that you’re either a conservative or a Russian bot.
We literally can’t even downvote it it’s just “I mean I could post there but they’d all yell at me about why I’m wrong so I’ll just reassure myself I’m right”