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  • SNEWSLEYPIES@lemm.eetoUK Politics@lemm.eeWeekly Megathread 17/07/2023
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly the sort of aggressive nonsense that constitutes the problem I’m trying to shed light on for you. Stop it. You don’t help. The road it leads down ends in oppression for all of us, no matter if it’s from the “left” or “right”. Stop picking fights.

    For the record, your read of me is very far off the mark.



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    The “i don’t want factions” faction

    Which you’ve just invented. No such animal exists unless you insist on comprehending the world in absolutes. It’s an unhelpful choice.

    irreconcilable differences in ideology

    There are none. When you choose an ideology that claims there are, then you are de facto giving up on politics in favour of fighting.

    The reason we as a species gradually invented politics over the last five or ten thousand years is precisely to reconcile differences of opinion that would otherwise lead to conflict. A refusal to partake in it would be base barbarism, in my estimation.






  • No.

    There’s no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.

    Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it’s not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they’re just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.

    …actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don’t go to. But that’s just them.




  • It makes me wonder whether Labour will even arrive in time to turn things around.

    One suspects this may be central to the government’s resistance to an early election - the longer the place declines, the better the chance of Starmer being a Callaghan rather than a Blair or even - be still my beating heart - an Attlee.



  • Please don’t be too principled as long as the tools and community to back up those principles aren’t in place.

    I very much agree with this, @[email protected] - your stance above is, I think, exactly as a stated policy should be, but please do remember that plans and reality must meet somewhere along the way. If you overthink things or cleave too religiously to the rules you’ve set yourself, you risk taking too long to act, and it’s exactly this delay between problem and reaction that bad actors exploit.

    Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face, basically. Lemm.ee is a great instance, and we’d all, I think, love to see it stay that way 🙂