Exposure to other viewpoints is good yes, but is it good when that exposure only ever gets you insults hurled your way from the people you’re trying to have a discussion with?

This is very close to the Nazi point of "just asking questions" or when they say it's just free speech. Not saying you're arguing it, but it is a very thin line.

What's the line then? Why do people ban Nazis and not tankies? Tankies are authoritarian, they defend the massacre of Ukrainians, the Uyghur genocide, and other historic "socialist" atrocities. Why do we give them leeway? Are they skirting the line just enough? Are they intentionally using the optics of socialism to do so? Etc.

Keep in mind, just because someone blocks someone or an instance it doesn't necessarily make the space an echo chamber. We don't know if they live in a state or work in a place that is blasting Fox News 24/7. They may be very active on Twitter exposed to that sewage. Heck, the liberal point of view is quite a lot as is with the way they are defending Israel.

I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.

This is SO important. Remember that the "Dirtbag Left" a la Chapo et al. was created when the Alt Right was running rampant in high schools. Their goal was to attract young people to the left. Which is great! There's a place for cringe edgy teens to feel like they can fight for a better world. But I'm really not looking to hang out with arrogant teenagers right now, and definitely not with their emotionally immature adult chaperones.

The fact that they are mostly kids is a big part of the reason why I feel the need to add context to their bad political science.

Sometimes questions have answers.

Exposure over and over won't be novel, or helpful, just grating. We do not need to endlessly rehash every possible argument, over and over and over and over and over.

Even if the other viewpoint is that trans people should get shot or locked up and are members of a secret child sex ring? I don't think I want that on my feed. I don't want people that want to kill me on my screen while I shit

They've mastered brainwashing to conservative religious nutjobs and incels. Maybe young and naive teenage boys, on top of that. If you aren't an idiot or a teen, you should be immune for the most part.

Not that I'm saying you should go out of your way to interact with Nazis. Unless the interaction involves punching.

Not at all, it's just making it so the dog has to shit outside in a particular spot you never have to walk through

What? No it's not. If I block an instance it's still up and running, I just don't see any of it. It's like if I put on a selective blindfold.

Also a valid solution to the poop on the carpet problem.

Just saying

They'll certainly bring up an actual good point from time to time, unlike actual fascists.

and a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day doesn't mean it's useful to have it taking up space on the wall.

also they are actual fascists. in the chapo trap house community I literally got the reply "ukraine should be destroyed at all costs"

Thanks for the nuance. While I agree that tankies can be annoying, I think it's stupid to compare them to fascists with the whole "red fash" thing. Just because they have some terrible takes of their own, it doesn't make them fascist.

The worst of them do deny genocides, which is terrible, but they do it out of a habit of denying anything western powers claim actually happened. I imagine many of their members are trolls and contrarians, as well. Despite this, like you said, some of them have decent takes and not all of them are off the deep end, yet

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