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[–]fred_red_beans 29 insightful - 5 fun29 insightful - 4 fun30 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

Conservatives are nazis?

I don't think this is a fair characterization of conservatism and just feeds the into the right vs left paradigm of divide and conquer.

[–]magnora7 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I think that's kind of the point OP is making, I suppose. Given the title.

But eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. The moderate voices get lost in the noise if each side pretends the other side is represented only by their extremists.

But I also agree with the sentiment of OP that there have been a lot of things crossposted from voat lately that are basically "liberals are all dumb" memes and I don't like the bias.

However I'm not totally sure the mud-slinging of the OP is the best way to address this, but it certainly is getting attention

[–]Alduin 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's an interesting paradigm you've created here with the double upvote and no downvote buttons. It's like having a live audience where everyone can clap loudly but no one can boo. I'm expecting this to be less likely to become an echo chamber and have more opposing narratives. If that's true, then it will be the most extreme of those narratives that will get the most applause as they compete.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That might end up being the case. But it might also be the case that it's easier to discover what overlaps the two sides the best, that we can all agree on.

[–]Alduin 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah that actually does sound more likely now that I think about it. I hope so, that sounds better. That may mean less politics as well, which would be amazing.

We'll just have to see I guess. Should be interesting.

[–]tiny 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But you ARE booing with a counter argument, and it's not hidden, nor will you suffer mass down votes from it. I just signed up bc I think it's a great experiment.