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I hope they do the right thing. This person is deranged.
It's the problem of the self radicalized single issue voter. It can happen on the left as easily as on the right. The problem is we really don't have any effective ways of piercing such radicalization.
Honestly outside of screaming that everyone that disagrees with them is a Zionist. Or the houthi thing. I don't strictly disagree with much of what they post. And nobody likes the tone police. But it's simply a fact that at some point any of us can become a bigger liability to our cause than an asset. Passion is great. But passion without logic or rationality will always be a liability.
That's the thing that kills me too, if Linkerbaan and I were to sit down and talk over dinner, I'm sure we'd find we agree on more things than we disagree on. It's just those few things are like nitro glycerin for him.
Yeah, probably 80% of their posts are good information that should be spread. But the posts and constant comments about how everyone who disputes anything they say "loves genocide" or "supports genocide" show that they aren't really in touch with reality, and their frequent calls to not vote for democrats, blind to how much worse trump was/would be, makes me want them gone from my feed.
They are doing damage. Literally acting against Palestine's interest, convinced that they are helping (I assume they really believe so anyhow) and should continue being terminally online, posting and commenting every waking hour of every day. If nothing else this dude has a deep rooted obsession, even if they weren't accusing 90% of the world of "loving genocide".
I 100% agree and have told them as much to their face several times. They're doing more harm than good. Unfortunately that just gets them screaming more, often. And this one may be the worst. But they're not alone by a long shot.
The worst of it is whether their intentions are good or bad. They are using this presidential election cycle and the candidates as a shooting range for their grievances. Rather than dealing with the congress. And getting Congress people elected that would actually make things better. My State lost a pro Palestine Congress person recently. New York did as well. And part of it is a lot of the propaganda but also the tone around the people pushing back against the propaganda. When you lash out at allies or potential allies when they give you slight pushback. You're definitely doing it wrong.
Linkerbaan is just constantly trolling instead of participating. There are plenty of people on .world who are able to express how the situation is despicable without the same deliberate bad faith.
Yes I have to give it to the mods they've been handling this well. Linkerbaan would like for the mods to lash out at them etc. In some way to justify their tantrum. I was there for the thread yesterday that linkerbaan started this with.
Flying squid was calm and mature throughout the whole thing. Linkerbaan acting like a teenage edgelord drama queen the whole time.