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Mïkê 💚 👑🐉🗡️🏳️‍⚧️

Maybe the saddest thing about Mastodon is that it seems like a place where internet arguments could be reasoned discussions that don't devolve into insults, but it's not. The higher character limit, lack of algorithms, etc have done nothing to make people less toxic.

I was just talking to a Jacobin who was arguing in favour of treating all Republican voters like they're just as evil as the politicians they elected, because, well, they elected them, right? She wanted to adopt a stance of extreme intolerance towards anyone even remotely responsible for the evil we're seeing.

I asked what that thought process implies for her, a person remotely responsible for an enormous amount of animal suffering and environmental destruction, through her purchasing of animal products at the grocery store (an assumption, to be sure, but one that she didn't correct). If it's okay for her to tell Republican voters to go die in a ditch, is it okay for me to do the same to non-vegans? I had asked this earlier in the thread, and didn't repeat the question quite as explicitly this time, but I said "You "vote" (with your wallet) for..." And specifically mentioned how "buying beef always kills cows". Nothing in my reply could possibly be construed as having anything to do with any literal election.

This was her response: "Jesus FUCKING CHRIST...WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? You're whining about how I'm choosing to gas animals and grind them up BECAUSE I VOTED TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE? YOU HAVE THE NERVE to say Harris lost and it's my fault BECAUSE I VOTED FOR HER? You are off the rails, sweetheart." [capitalization in original]

This same thread had someone tell me I'm basically Hitler because I abbreviated a paragraph describing predictable behaviour to "like NPCs" (a paragraph I then typed out in full, to make sure there could be no more unintentional misunderstandings). They then made several replies to other people talking about how the left is doomed because people like me want to condemn people in the strongest terms over nothing.

So yeah. Some people are just as impossible to reason with here as they are on Twitter. Do not engage. #Mastodon #Internet #SocialMedia #Trolls #Trolling #Extremism

Edward Champion

I am presently involved in a contretemps with a redheaded Riefenstahl on TikTok. This fascist doesn't understand basic constitutional law and all she does is stare vapidly at the screen and duet my TikToks. And I always get new followers. So I have been responding to her by speaking in different languages that she doesn't understand and will never have the curiosity to comprehend.

If you want to troll the MAGA Cult, come at them with non-English languages! Ha!

#trolling#magacult#language
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