We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
Yeah. I mean I do feel like it’s good if there is some vigorous pushback against the nonsense. I am honestly heartened and encouraged by how the Lemmy immune system against bad-faith bullshit seems to be getting stronger since last year. I was honestly really unhappy about how these narratives seemed to dominate when I first joined, it has been getting better.
Like a few days ago, there was a “Nazi tattoo” story, and all the first 1-2 dozen comments were applying some kind of skepticism to it or asking questions. The bullshit brigade arrived soon after that, and the comments section immediately devolved into something about like what we’re seeing surrounding us now, but I definitely think political Lemmy at this point has a certain level of bullshit-meter activated.
(I feel like seeing the exact same tide of people swearing that there wasn’t much difference between Trump and Kamala, and they were going to save Palestine by refusing to vote for Democrats, and then the bloody aftermath we’re living through now, might have had a certain amount to do with it honestly. Of course, I am sure it will go through its next evolution at some point, I feel like just deliberately disrupting the comments with hostility and angry noise may start to take over more and more soon if bullshit keeps not working, but that’s just one random guess.)
Yea, I was there for the bullshit brigade, I got completely exhausted by it. I had planned to go to his town hall tonight but I ended up not feeling well don’t want to get anyone else sick if I’m coming down with something. His last few have made it to YouTube so I’m hopeful this one will too. Hopefully he will do another close enough for me to attend.
Don’t try to apply critical thinking to these people, it’s a waste of energy. Just downvote and move on.
Yeah. I mean I do feel like it’s good if there is some vigorous pushback against the nonsense. I am honestly heartened and encouraged by how the Lemmy immune system against bad-faith bullshit seems to be getting stronger since last year. I was honestly really unhappy about how these narratives seemed to dominate when I first joined, it has been getting better.
Like a few days ago, there was a “Nazi tattoo” story, and all the first 1-2 dozen comments were applying some kind of skepticism to it or asking questions. The bullshit brigade arrived soon after that, and the comments section immediately devolved into something about like what we’re seeing surrounding us now, but I definitely think political Lemmy at this point has a certain level of bullshit-meter activated.
(I feel like seeing the exact same tide of people swearing that there wasn’t much difference between Trump and Kamala, and they were going to save Palestine by refusing to vote for Democrats, and then the bloody aftermath we’re living through now, might have had a certain amount to do with it honestly. Of course, I am sure it will go through its next evolution at some point, I feel like just deliberately disrupting the comments with hostility and angry noise may start to take over more and more soon if bullshit keeps not working, but that’s just one random guess.)
Yea, I was there for the bullshit brigade, I got completely exhausted by it. I had planned to go to his town hall tonight but I ended up not feeling well don’t want to get anyone else sick if I’m coming down with something. His last few have made it to YouTube so I’m hopeful this one will too. Hopefully he will do another close enough for me to attend.
This was not a statistically significant number of people.